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WINBORNE 
FAMILY 


BY 

JUDGE  BENJ.  BRODIE  WINBORNE, 

MURFKEESBORO.  N.  C. 


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'A  heart  that  has  truly  loved  never  forgets. 
But  as  truly  loves  on  to  the  close." — Moore. 


PIIKSSES  OF    EinVAKDS  *    BRlll'C.HTON, 
ltAI.EIi;II.    N.  I. 


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DEDICATION. 
This  short  sketch  of  my  ancestors  I  dedicate  to 

MY  TWO   NEPHEWS,  RoGER  M.   WlXIiORNE   AND  RoBERT 

Warren  Winborne,  sons  of  my^  brother,  Robert  W., 
and  to  my  two  sons,  stanley  win borne  and  benja- 
MIN Brodie  Winborne,  Jr.  .May  they  ever  be 
I'Rori)  of  their  ancestors  and  in:ir-ECT  credit  on 
the  Winborne  name. 

Ben. I.  Brodie  Winborne. 
Ai-itiL,  11105. 


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CONTENTS. 


Town  of  Murfreesboro,  X.  C 11 

Hertforil  County,  N.  C 14 

My  Afiolofjy 17 

Henry  Winborne 20 

Thomas  Winborne 2tj 

Sarah  Agatha  Winborne 30 

Klisha  Winl>orne 34 

Martha  Warren 38 

Micajah  Tlionias  Winborne 43 

-Maj.  Samuel  llarden  Winborne 46 

A  l'"e\v  Stray  Thoujihts  of  My  Father,  Maj.  S.  D.  Winborne 52 

Caroline  .Vnn  Winborne 52 

Dr.  Robert  Henry  Winborne Gl 

Annie  Felicia  Parker 67 

Itichard  Winborne 71 

Kobert  Warren 74 

Mrs.  Mary  Hare  Winborne 78 

Clam  Ann  Winborne 85 

Mary  Klizabeth  Winborne 85 

Benjamin  Uroilie  Winborne                  .S6 

.Mrs.  Marjjaret  Klla  Savage Sit 

Kobert  Warren  Winborne 91 

Mrs.  .Martlia  .\nnie  IJurbaae 95 

Samuel  I'retlow  Winborne % 

Uriah  Vaughan 98 

Sarah  A.  Vaughan,  nee  .Tenkins 103 

Bryan  Hare 105 

Miss  .4nn  Scott 107 

The  Shepherds 108 

.1.  W.  Perry Ill 

Buck  horn  Academy 113 

Buckhorn  Baptist  Church 116 

Bertie  County,  N.  C 118 


Contents. 


PAGE. 

Hertford  County,  N.  C 121 

Northampton  County,  N.  C 125 

Nash  County,  N.  C 129 

Edgecombe  County,  N.  C 132 

Wake  County,  N.  C 133 

(iuilford  County,  N.  C 134 

Randolph  County,  N.  C 135 

Wilson  Coiuity,  N.  C 135 

X'rifjinia 13t) 

Thomas  Wilborne 138 

England 1-10 

Conclusion 1-11 


Hon.  W.  N.  I[.  smith. 

I.ATK  rillKF  Jl  STIlE  OF   NoKTH  CAKOLINA. 

The  sreftt  grainlsun  of  Staikey  Sharp 

iitu\  wife  Sarah  sharp  nee  Winborne. 

(  Sec  pttKP  1-1.  ) 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 

FaciuK  ('Hue, 

B.  B.  Winlrorne,  Jr..  Stanley  Winbonip  (> 

Hon.  W.  N.  H.  Smith 8 

Hon.  B.  B.  Winborne  (January.  1905) !ii 

John   Spotswood  Anderson    28 

Albert  Mit-hael  Gurley 30 

Mrs.   Sarah   Elizabeth   Gurley 32 

Elislia   Winborne    .  .  34 

Miiajah  T.  Winborn.-  42 

Major  S.   D.  Winborne 46 

Mrs.  \V.  F.  Watson .58 

Dr.   K.   H.   Winborne  (iO 

Richard  Winborne   62 

William    H.    Winborne 64 

John   Wallace  Winborne 66 

Richard  Winborne  70 

Robert  Warren   74 

Mrs.   Mary  H.   Winborne 78 

J.  P.  Massenburg 82 

Miss  Mary  Eliz.   Winborne 84 

Hon.  B.  B.  Winborne.  ( January.  1904 ) 86 

Stanley   Winborne   86 

B.  B.  Winborne.  Jr 86 

Mrs.  Ella  M.  Savage 88 

R.   W.   Winborne 90 

Roger   M.    Winborne 92 

R.  W.   Winlwrne.   Jr 92 

Mrs.  Annie  M.  Burbage 94 

S.  P.  Winborne 96 

Mrs.  S.  P.  Winborne 96 

Col.   Uriah   Vaughan 98 

Mrs.  Nellie  V.  Winborne 102 

Mrs.  Rosa  T.  Winborne 104 

J.   W.  Perry 110 

Mrs.  Julia  Moore  Parrish 116 

Hayden  L.  G urley US 

Mrs.   Lucy  Ann   Gurley 12n 


il..N.  I;,  n.  u  1m;.>1;nk. 

>irRFI:KHsll(il;o.  X.  e. 

Jaiiiinry.  1905. 


TOWN  OF  MURFREESBORO,  N.  C. 

This  beautiful  old  town  is  located  in  Hertford  C'ouuty, 
-N'.  C,  on  the  soutli  side  of  Meherrin  Kiver,  at  the  head 
of  navigation  for  sea-going  vessels,  on  a  high  bluff, 
about  SO  feet  ab<jve  the  water  of  the  river.  It  was  first 
incorporated  by  an  act  of  the  Legislature  of  North 
Carolina,  ratified  January  (!.  ITs?.  Prior  to  that  date, 
it  was  known  as  Murfree's  Landing.  William  Jlurfree 
donated  the  laud  for  the  town.  .Murfreesboro  has  al- 
ways i>een  noted  for  the  culture  and  retiueuient  of  its 
citizens,  and  its  si)iendid  schools.  It  lias  been  the  home 
of  many  distinguished  i)eoi)le  in  the  history  of  North 
Carolina,  among  theui  were  (Jen.  Laurence  Ixiker,  Col. 
Hanly  Alurfree  and  Gen.  Dickinsou  of  Kevolutionary 
fame,  Colonels  J.  X.  llarreil  and  .1.  .\L  Wynn,  Capt. 
L.  C.  Lawrence.  .Maj.  .Ic^sc-  .1.  Vcates,  and  others,  of  the 
Civil  War  fame,  John  11.  WiiechT,  tlie  great  historian 
of  the  State,  tiie  late  Chief  .liisticc  \V.  X.  II.  Smith,  the 
father  of  the  late  Chief  .Insiicc  Manning,  of  Louisiana, 
and  many  other.s.  The  town  of  Murfreeslioro,  Tennes- 
see, was  caused  to  lie  incorj)orated  by  Cid.  Hardy  Mur- 
free,  of  the  same  family,  and  is  named  for  the  same 
gentleman. 

Winton.  the  county  seat  of  Hertford,  was  incorpor- 
ated in  1T6S.  nineteen  years  earlier.  That  town  is  lo- 
cated on  the  majestic  Chowan  River,  and  is  now  a 
thrifty  and  prosperous  town. 


12  The  Winborne  Family. 

The  Meherrin  l>;i]>tist  C'luirch,  about  one-half  mile 
out  of  town,  is,  I  think,  the  seeonil  nhlest  Baptist  church 
in  tliis  State,  Shihih  Church,  in  Pas(inotank,  probably 
about  six  years  ohlev.  One  Joseph  Parker,  ordained 
liy  tlie  Shiloh  Clnirch,  established  where  the  town  of 
Mnrfreesboro  noAV  stands,  about  the  year  1735,  the 
c-hnrch  known  as  ^leherrin  Church.  The  name  Meher- 
rin. like  Xattaway,  ( 'howan,  Urahaw,  was  the  name  of  a 
tribe  of  Indians.  The  ]\leherrins  had  their  camping 
griinnds  in  ilamiey's  Neck.  All  along  the  line  of  Me- 
licrrin  River,  on  each  side,  was  their  hunting  grounds. 
Tlie  Indians  always  selected  the  most  desirable  spots  of 
laud  for  their  camping  villages,  and  the  white  man  soon 
learning  this,  in  their  search  for  the  "happy  valley," 
and  the  attractive  liigli  lands,  made  battle  against  the 
Red  Man,  until  they  succeeded  as  the  occupants  of  the 
llfil  Man's  home  and  sporting  parks.  But  returning, 
Meherrin  Church,  after  the  location  of  the  town,  was 
moved  about  one-half  mile  outside  of  the  town  limits 
and  located  on  the  land  now  owned  by  James  jST.  Law- 
rence, in  tlie  old  oak  grove,  just  beyond  the  jjresent 
drive  to  the  Lawrence  Mineral  Spring,  so  much  resorted 
til  bv  the  health-seelviug  people  of  the  town.  Later  Mr. 
T.  Capehart  traded  the  present  site  of  the  church  for 
the  old  chureli  yard,  and  gave  the  members  a  nice  little 
money  donation,  to  aid  in  the  rejjairiug  or  rebuilding 
of  the  new  chui'ch  edifice.  From  the  name  of  the 
founder,  it  was  frequently  s]ioken  of  as  Parker's 
Church. 

In  Feliruary,  l.'^25,  ilarquis  de  La  Fayette,  a  great 
(leueral  in  Wasliington's  army  during  the  Revolution, 


TOWK    OF    MURFREESBORO,    N.    C.  13 

visited  ilurfreesboro  and  stopped  at  the  Indian  Queen 
JJotcl,  then  owned  by  Henry  Kanisay,  a  very  wealthy 
citizen  of  the  town,  lie  was  given  a  grand  reception. 
William  liea,  Dr.  Eoriaud,  James  Morgan,  J.  G.  Kca, 
Dr.  O'Dwyer,  Colonel  Brici<lc,  Lewis  M.  Cowper,  and 
Jolm  \V.  Southall  were  on  the;  reception  committee.  (2 
^loore's  His.,  4).  During  this  same  year,  June  utli, 
Kev.  Daniel  Southal  jjreached  the  funeral  sermon  of 
General  Thomas  Wyuns,  uncle  of  our  Gol.  James  M. 
Wyiius.  General  Wyniis  represented  this  district  in  the 
Congress  of  the  Cniteil  States  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  married  iliss  ^lanney,  of  the  celebrated  family  of 
Manney's  Xeck,  and  they  lived  at  Barfields,  just  below 
Winton,  on  the  Chowan  River.  Henry  ilanney,  Mrs. 
Wynns'  brother,  was  then  the  owner  of  the  old  ilanney's 
homestead.  (2  Moore's  His.,  5).  During  the  late  Civil 
War,  the  Union  sohlicrs  invaded  the  town  several  times 
and  destroyed  much  property  and  carried  away  many  of 
the  valuable  family  jewels  and  heirlooms,  which  they 
took  from  the  homes  of  the  citizens. 


14  The  Winborne  Family. 


HERTFORD  COUNTY, 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

This  county  was  foriucd  in  tlie  year  IT."!!,!,  fruni 
C'liDwan,  Bertie,  and  Xorthamjjton  counties.  It  was 
named  for  the  ^Janpiis  of  Hertford,  an  English  noble- 
nuin,  a  friend  of  liherty.  He  was  a  brother  of  Lord 
Conway,  who  in  ITHd  introdiu-eil  a  bill  in  the  House  of 
Lords  to  repeal  the  Stamp  Act,  which  act  aroused  the 
American  Colonies  and  impelled  them  to  throw  off  the 
yoke  of  English  tyranny.  He  was  Embassador  to  Paris 
from  England  during  the  reign  of  George  III,  and  after 
that  he  was  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland.  It  was  to  the 
^Marchioness  of  Hertford  that  Thompson  dedicated  his 
great  poem,  "The  Seasons."  The  old  county  of  Hert- 
ford is  dear  to  the  Winborne  family. 

The  boundaries  of  Hertford  (^)mlty  when  established 
were  as  follows : 

"Beainninff  in  Bertie  Countv  at  the  iirst  high  land  on 
the  northwest  side  of  Mare  Branch,  on  Chowan  River 
Pocosin,  running  thence  by  a  direct  line  to  Thomas  Out- 
law's plantation,  near  Stoney  Creek,  thence  a  direct  line 
to  Xorthampton  County  line  at  the  plantation  whereon 
James  Rutland  formerly  lived,  then  along  ^Northampton 
line  to  the  head  of  Beaver  Ham  Swamp,  thence  by  a 


HkKTI'OKIi    COINTV.  15 

direct  line  to  tin-  ciistfrniotit  jiart  of  Iverby's  Creek, 
llieiict'  (luwn  rlic  creek  to  Melierrin  Kiver,  tlien  up  the 
Mc'lien-iu  Kiver  to  the  N'irjiiiiia  line,  tliericc  easterly 
aloiiji'  the  State  line  to  wIumv  tlic  Xottaway  and  Black 
Water  liivers  i-i.alesce  and  t'nrni  the  Chowan  River, 
thence  down  the  Cliowan  Kiver  to  tiie  month  of  Ben- 
net's  Creek,  thence  across  th(!  river  to  the  month  of  said 
Mare    liranch.   and    \\]t  the  branch   to  the  beginning." 

The  General  A-seiiiliJy,  liy  an  Act  ratified  in  Novem- 
ber, ITott,  incorporated  the  above  territory  as  Hertford 
County,  in  the  parish  of  St.  l^arnabas. 
■     Moore's  History  does  not  give  the  complete  boiindarv. 

Ahoskie  was  formerly  known  by  the  name  of  .Vhotsky 
Ridge  (A-hot-sky).  The  town  of  Ahoskie  is  now  a 
thrifty,  bnsy  little  town  on  the  .\tlantic  Coast  Line  Kail- 
road,  nine  miles  south  of  Winton,  and  was  incorporated 
by  the  General  Assend)ly  January  24,  1S03. 

TIarrellsville  is  a  beatitiful  little  town,  in  the  centre 
of  a  prosperous  farming  section,  in  the  east  end  of  the 
comity,  and  was  incor])orated  in  the  year  1S83. 

Fnion  in  the  centre  of  the  cotinty.  and  Majileton  be- 
tween Mnrfreesboi-o  and  Winton,  are  the  other  incor- 
porated towns  in  the  county.  The  former  was  incor- 
l)orated  in  1889,  and  the  latter  in  1901. 

Hertford  County  is  the  mother  of  a  high  class  of  citi- 
zenshi]),  and  of  beautiful  and  intelligent  women.  T  love 
the  name  of  Hertford.  Since  my  return  from  school, 
in  1875,  1  have  identified  myself  with  all  of  lier  institu- 
tions and  enter])rises.  I  liave  permitted  nothing  to 
come  between  me  and  tiie  welfare  of  mv  countv.     Her 


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The  Winborne  Family. 


jiL'oplc  were  kiml  and  a])]>r('ciative  of  niv  father,  and 
have  heen  kind  to  nio  and  my  hvothers.  May  her  sons 
ever  be  trne  to  her,  and  defend  her  fair  fame,  and  the 
honor  of  her  noble  \\-omen. 


-My  Aroi.oGT. 


MY  APOLOGY. 

J*  jt 

I  hare  always  felt  pnnid  of  my  parents,  and  have 
heeii  anxious  to  know  of  their  ancestry.  .\11  are  dead. 
We  are  separated  hy  the  great  chasm.  My  investiga- 
tions iiave  increased  my  admiration  for  them,  if  that 
were  possilile.  I  have  fonnd  an  honorahle  ancestry. 
No  shame  attaclied  \n  it  on  either  side.  I  pray  that  the 
living  may  never  i)lot  it.  I  met  witli  trotibles,  in  my 
investigations,  in  olitaining  many  of  the  facts,  but  snc- 
eess  crowned  my  efforts.  1  foimd  among  my  father's 
old  ]iapers  a  great  nund)er  of  old  letters,  family  records, 
co])ies  of  Conrt  records,  statements  of  facts  in  the  cor- 
respondence of  the  Winliorne  children  when  thc^y  were 
yonng,  that  were  a  great  revelation  to  me.  Their  letters 
to  each  other  were  model  ]troductions,  fnll  of  admira- 
tion for  their  family  ami  for  each  other,  fnll  of  facts 
and  interesting  news  ahmit  themselves  and  others. 
Tliey  had  no  secrets  that  they  withheld  from  one 
another.  Kach  letter  was  an  ojjen  book  of  his  life  and 
doings.      They  e.xcite  great  admiration. 

My  grandma  Martha  and  my  father  and  nncles 
always  told  me  that  their  oldest  Winborue  ancestors  in 
this  country  came  from  Scotland.  Their  fondness  for 
stock  and  stockraising,  their  love  for  the  chase,  the  meat 
of  the  venison,  their  manner  of  wearing  their  beard  witii 
3 


18  The  Winborne  Family. 

clean  shaven  npper'lij),  a  style  so  notable  with  the  Scot- 
isli  gentry,  their  great  admiration  for  the  beautiful  and 
fair  complexion,  and  simple  manners  and  dress  of  the 
"(Quaker  girl,"  who  so  much  resembles  the  Scottish 
uuiid,  and  other  traits,  indicate  the  nativity  of  their  an- 
cestors. Wimborne  is  a  familiar  name  in  England  to- 
day. In  Dorset  County,  England,  there  is  a  city  of 
considerable  importance  by  the  name  of  Wimborne 
Minster.  There  is  a  Lord  Wimborne  of  great  promi- 
nence in  England  to-day.  In  reading  about  him  I  no- 
tice he  is  Scotch.  Whether  the  names  were  originally 
the  same,  I  do  not  know  or  care. 

I  am,  also,  indebted  to  my  frien<ls  who  aideil  me 
luuch  in  getting  missing  facts,  ily  brother  Ivobert  con- 
tributed to  iiiy  aiil.  The  records  of  Bertie,  Xorthamp- 
ton  and  other  counties  revealed  much  to  me.  The  rec- 
ords of  Hertford  (\iunty,  however,  were  burned  August 
22,  1830,  and  again,  the  court-house  and  records,  except 
the  old  County  Court  records  since  ISJJU,  were  burned 
by  tlie  Union  soldiers  May  20,  1S62.  The  records  of 
Xansemond  County,  Va.,  were  also  destroyed  by  the 
Union  soldiers  during  the  late  Civil  War  between  the 
States.  The  ili/struction  of  these  records  were  a  great 
impediment  in  vei-ifying  many  facts  and  in  securing 
others.  I  am  glad  1  made  this  effort  to  build  a  small 
monument  to  the  memory  of  my  departed  ancestors. 
Not  one  of  them  e\'er  died  insolvent.  They  paid  their 
debts.  They  were  not  rich,  nor  p()or.  Each  one  left 
something  to  their  children  to  enable  them  to  begin  the 
battle  of  life.      They  loved  their  homes  and  their  fami- 


,\1y  AroUKiY. 


19 


lies.  Tliev  ('ducated  their  cliildi-cii.  I'Ik'v  were  kind 
m'i<>lil)()rs  and  patriotic  citizens.      1  iiiii  i;lad  to  r(»cor(l  it. 

1  am  in  my  o'2d  year  and  the  oldest  livini>-  member 
lit'  tile  family.  Shonld  auy  of  my  ivin  or  friends  derive 
any  jdeasnre,  or  my  boys  receive  auy  inspiratiim  tn 
niililc  ih>eds.  fi-oin  the  pcrnsal  of  this  work  of  mine,  I 
shall  be  ami)ly  compensated  fnr  my  laboi-s. 

Slimmer  of  lilOo.  li.   15.  W. 


20  The  Winbokne  Family. 


HENRY  WINBORNE. 

-Xiitliiuii'  (leliglits  the  liimiiin  iiiiiul  ukivc  tluui  the 
study  of  geneahDgy.  JS^otliing  ali'ords  one  so  much  pride 
and  genuine  pleasure  than  to  know  that  you  have  an 
lionorable  ancestry.  To  pass  over  the  lu-idge  of  time, 
tliat  ccmuects  the  present  with  \\\v  ])ast,  and  to  see  and 
behold  the  conditions,  the  possessions,  the  habits,  the  la- 
bors, and  look  into  the  faces  and  talk  with  those,  who 
lived  centuries  before,  is  the  acme  of  uicutal  happiness, 
and  the  earthly  joy  of  the  soul.  Moving  back  nearly 
one  hundred  and  sixty-three  years,  seventeen  years  be- 
fore the  formation  of  Hertford  County,  and  thirty-four 
years  before  the  Declaration  of  American  Independence, 
when  ]Vorth  Carolina,  Virginia,  and  other  great  States 
(if  the  American  Union,  were  colonies,  owing  fealty  to 
the  I?ritish  Government,  we  see  Bryan  Hare,  and  Henry 
Winborne,  in  the  fall  of  the  year  1742,  driving  into  Ber- 
tie County,  North  Carolina,  from  "Nansemond  County, 
Virginia,  seeking  the  purchase  of  lauds  and  homes  in 
this  section,  of  the  land  of  liVicrty  and  freedom  of 
conscience. 

On  the  Sth  day  of  December,  1742,  Daniel  Hough, 
jdaurer,  of  Bertie  County,  in  tlie  Brovince  of  North 
(^arolina,  conveyed  to  Henry  Winliorne  and  Bryan 
Hare,  ])lanters,  of  Nanseniond  County,  Virginia,  in  con- 
sideration of  seventy-seven  pounds  and  ten  shillings, 


Henry  Wixboenk.  21 

ciiiTfut  money  of  Vir<>iiii;i.  four  Iniiidrcd  acres  of  laud 
in  Bertie  County,  lyinj;'  on  the  soutli  side  of  .Melicrriu 
C'roeic  (now  Poteeasi  Creek).  Tliis  land  is  located  a 
little  northeast  of  ihe  town  of  I'nion  in  Hertford 
County,  and  is  endnaced  in  the  boundaries  of  Hertford 
County  as  formed  in  17.")!*. 

On  January  ■2'>,  17.")4.  Ueuj.  Cotton  conveyed  to 
Henry  Winhorne,  of  IJerfie  County,  250  acres  of  land, 
adjoining  the  laud  of  .lames  Jones,  Peter  West  and 
others.  This  land  is  now  iu  Winton  To\vnslii]i,  in  Hert- 
ford County. 

On  the  l:'.tli  day  of  Deceniher,  IT.J.I,  said  Henry  re- 
ceived a  patent  for  TOO  acres  of  land  in  Bertie  County, 
the  location  of  which  is  now  in  the  central  part  of  Hert- 
ford County. 

On  Ihe  7th  day  of  .March.  17'i4.  .Mope?  Stallens,  of 
Bertie  County,  conveyed  lo  Henry  Wiidmrne,  of  Hert- 
ford County,  224  acres  id'  laii<l,  lyinjr.  I  think,  iu  the 
Pitch  Lauding-  section. 

On  the  10th  day  of  January.  17nO,  his  son,  William 
Winborue,  conveyed  tiie  above  224  acres  to  Aaron  As- 
kew, so  he  must  lia\c  con\eyed  that  tract  to  William. 

On  tile  14th  <hiy  of  April,  17.''!».  Henry  Winhorne 
convened  to  Jo(d  liinl  2.'>0  acrt's  of  land.  His  wife  did 
not  join  in  this  warranty  ileed,  so  I  couclude  that  his 
wife,  Sarah,  must  have  died  prion  to  that  date,  as  the 
common  law  riglil  of  .lower  prevaileil  in  .\ortli  Carolina 
until  17S4. 

Win.yfcnd  r.  \V inx/cail .  2  .\.  C.,  24;>.  Tlie  common 
law  right  of  dower  was  tlial  the  wife,  ■*who  survived  her 
husband,  was  entitled  to  one-thinl  interest  in  valn(>  dur- 


22  The  Winbobne  Family. 

illy  liei-  life,  ill  all  lauds  of  which  lier  hushaiid  was 
seized  during  eoverture.  Hence,  in  selling  land,  it  was 
necessary  for  the  wife  to  join  in  the  deed  to  bar  her 
right  of  (lower  in  the  hind.  This  law  was  changed  iu 
I'iX-i,  eh.  lii',  sec.  N.  From  that  date  the  wife  was 
only  entitled  to  dower  iu  the  lauds  of  which  her  hus- 
band DiEi)  seized.  The  comuiou  law  right  of  dower, 
however,  was  restored  iu  North  Carolina  on  March  2, 
1^07,  Acts  186-T,  eh.  54,  and  which  is  the  hrw  to-day. 

Henry  Wiuborne  was  a  man  of  affairs  and  was  a 
large  laiulowuer.  He  was  energetic,  thrifty,  of  good 
judgment,  and  an  honorable  iiiau.  It  seems  that  he 
married  Miss  Sarah  Hare,  a  Quaker  lady,  of  Nanse- 
inoud  County,  Virginia,  the  sister  of  his  companion, 
Bryan  Hare.  On  October  15,  IT 54,  Henry  Wiuborne 
and  his  wife,  Sarah,  conveyed  to  John  Brickie,  of  Bertie 
County,  200  acres  of  laud,  liut  since  November,  1759, 
has  been  iu  llcrtfoi-d  (•ouut.y,  lying  near  the  town  of 
Union. 

.  So  far  as  we  can  learu  from  iiur  investigation,  Henry 
Wiuborne  and  his  wife,  Sarali,  had  three  children,  viz., 
Sarah,  William,  and  Thomas.  They  were  bom  prior  to 
April,  175!>.  His  wife  did  not  survive  the  birth  of  her 
son,  Thomas,  very  long.  Henry  never  re-married,  as  we 
can  learu.  Later  on,  wlien  the  British  Govermnent,  by 
its  tyrannical  laws,  so  aroused  the  re.sentnient  of  the 
Auiericau  colonists,  as  to  cause  them  to  declare  their 
indcpeudcuce  of  the  British  Crown,  iiud  to  resort  to 
arms  to  defeiul  their  liberties  and  indeiiendence,  Henry 
Wiuborne,  of  Hertford  County,  on  the  24th  day  of  May, 
1777,  enlisted  in  the  Continental  Army  of  America,  for 


Henry  Winborne.  23 

three  years,  as  a  {)rivate  in  Capt.  Josepli  Walker's  Com- 
pany, of  Hertford  County,  and  of  tlic  Seventh  llegiment 
of  North  Cai'olina's  Continental  Troops.  See  State 
IJcc.  of  iS'.  C,  Vol.  16,  page  llSa.  His  record  must 
have  been  an  honorable  one,  for  1  tind  in  the  State  rec- 
ords in  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State,  at  Raleigh,  that 
on  the  7th  day  of  April,  lT>i(i,  tiie  State  of  North  Caro- 
lina granted  to  him,  ■"Henrv  Winhiu'iic,  a  [)rivate  in  the 
Continental  line,"  ;JMi  aercs  of  land  in  this  State. 

In  examining  the  «dd  records  of  deeds  and  other 
papers,  I  tind  that  his  name,  wlien  written  by  others,  is 
spelt  in  various  ways,  viz.,  Winboiaie,  Winburn,  Win- 
l)orn,  and  Winlnitiru.  lint  in  every  case  where  he 
signed  his  name,  he  wroit-  it  llciinj  Winborne.  In 
Capt.  Walker's  conijiany,  .lohn  Wiidxirnc,  of  Hertford 
County,  was  Lieutenant.  He  died  during  the  war,  so 
the  State  records  show.  I  have  been  unable  to  learn 
what  was  the  blood  connection  between  John  and 
Henry.     I  regTct  tliat  w(>  have  no  records  to  inform  us. 

Bryan  Hare  (or  as  it  is  often  spelt  Bryant  Hare)  was, 
also,  an  active  and  energetic  person,  and  was  evidently 
a  Quaker  and  a  nuin  of  ])rominence.  On  .March. 30, 
IT");],  Bryan  Hare,  of  Bertie  County,  conveyed  to  David 
Sinclaire  150  acres  of  land,  then  in  Bertie  (but  in  Hert- 
ford County  since  ITaO),  lying  between  Brook's  Creek 
and  the  i)ublic  road  to  A\'iccacon  Ferry.  On  July  22, 
17oS,  Peter  West,  of  Bertie  County,  conveyed  to  Bryan 
Hare  100  acres  of  land  in  said  county  on  Flat  Swamp. 
This  is,  also,  in  the  boundary  of  Hertford  County.  The 
records  of  IIertfi:)rd  County  were  destroyed  in  August, 
1830,  and  again  in  1862,  so  we  are  cut  oif  from  much 


24  The  Winborxe  Family. 

v;iln;il)l('  and  interesting  infiirHuiti"n  (if  tliese  prominent 
people  iif  Ilerttord  County.  On  January  30,  1758, 
15rvan  Hare  and  wife,  Sarali  11  are,  of  Society  Parish, 
in  F>ertie  County,  conveyed  to  .lohn  Brickie  45  acres  of 
laud  adjoining  the  lands  purchased  by  John  Brickie 
from  Henry  Wiuborne,  and  tlie  other  lands  of  Bryan 
Hare,  known  as  the  Iveuhi'u  Powell  land,  and  i)urchased 
by  Bryan  Hare  from  l>eiij.  ^Vynus,  Exr.  of  Tlios.  Lee. 

Bryan  Hare  married  Miss  Sarah  Shepherd,  sister  of 
Solomon  Shepherd,  of  Nanseniond  County,  Virginia.  I 
can  not  learn  anything,  from  the  records,  of  Bryan 
Hare,  in  Xorth  Carolina,  after  1758.  The  destruction 
of  the  records  of  Hert  ford  ( 'ouuty  by  fire  in  1830  makes 
it  impossible  for  us  to  learn  what  estate  Henry  Win- 
borne  left,  and  who  settled  it.  But  we  know  lie  left  a 
very  considerable  estate,  as  his  land  remained  in  the 
])ossession  of  his  sons,  and  a  ]iortion  was  owned  by  his 
grandson,  Elisha,  until  sold  iu  1829,  after  the  death  of 
Elisha.  His  family  having  moved  to  another  part  of 
the  county. 

Henry  ^Yinborne  had  one  brother,  and  possibly  sev- 
eral. Thomas  Wiuborne,  his  brother,  moved  from 
Xansemond  County,  Va.,  to  Xorthampton  County,  N. 
C.,  about  the  middle  of  the  isth  century.  The  records 
of  the  latter  county  show  that  on  July  3,  1758,  William 
Saunders  conveyed  to  Thomas  Winborne,  of  that  cotinty, 
100  acres  of  land  on  (Quarter  Swamp,  it  being  a  part  of 
the  Joseph  Lane  patent.  Henry  and  Thomas  inva- 
riably spelt  their  names  Winhorne.  That  was  not  the 
ease  with  William  Winborne,  of  Northampton  County, 
X.  C,  who  also  came  from  Nansemond  County,  Va.,  and 


IIemry  Winbokm:.  25 

who  speaks  of  his  two  brotlicrs,  John  and  Pliilip.  They 
iiiav  have  Iwen  hrothers  of  Ilciirv  and  Thomas,  l)ut  I 
can  not  find  anvthinc;  to  justify  that  conchision.  They 
were  evidently  kin.  See  tlie  eliapters,  "Xorthanipton 
Co.,"  and  "'Vii-giuia." 


NoTK. — Since  writing  this  sl<etoh.  I  have  learned  that  Henry 
Winborne.  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  William  Murfree. 
represented  Hertford  County  in  the  General  Assembly  of  1762 
and  1763,  they  being  the  first  representatives  from  the  county. 
(Col.  Rec,  Vol.  6,  pages  810  and  916.)  The  names  printed  on 
page  801  are  incorrect. 


■2(\  TiiK  WiNBOPvNE  Family. 


THOMAS  WINBORNE. 

The  son  of  Henry  Winlmi'iic  and  his  wife,  Sarah,  of 
whom  we  have  written,  was  horn  between  1754:  and 
175!)  (in  the  fiirni  owned  by  the  hitc  Joseph  Newsoni,  in 
Hertford  Connty,  whieli  was  ihc  Wiidiorne  homestead. 
The  family  records,  fonnd  anionf>-  my  father's  papers, 
after  iiis  death,  informs  lis  that  Tliomas  Winborne  mar- 
ried Miss  Sarali  Copeland,  a  gentle  and  pleasing 
(Quakeress.  Her  parents  lieliinged  to  the  followers  of 
George  Fox  and  William  Penn,  and  were  noted  in  their 
day  for  their  rigid  honesty,  their  plain  and  simple  man- 
ners, their  neat  and  nnostentatioiis  dress,  and  their 
beautiful  an<l  exeuqdary  characters  and  lives.  Aliss 
('o]K>land  possessed  in  a  marked  degree  the  attractions 
of  I  hi'  pure,  liglil-liaircil  Scotlisii  lassie,  and  of  the 
cliarming  (^)naker  gii'l.  X"  rclined  gentlemau  can  re- 
sist the  charms  and  fascinations  of  the  beantifid  Qunlrr 
(jirl .  unless  he  is  devoid  of  all  love  for  the  beautiful  and 
sublime.  The  ])oet  must  have  had  one  of  them  in  his 
mind  when  he  wrote: 

"  A  thing  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever." 

The  children  and  grandchildren  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  i-eflected  in  their  lives,  to  a  great  extent,  the 
s])lendi(l  and  beautiful  lives  and  characters  of  their 
parents. 


Tiiojr.vs  \Vixi!I)i;ni:.  27 

Tluinuis  W'iulioriic  was  a  ))laiitfi'  ami  lived  on  his 
tariii.  He  was  a  man  <if  urcat  iiidiisfrv  and  snin-it'ty. 
lie  was  his  own  cariientfi',  conijer.  and  had  a  t'actorv  at 
which  hi*  ha<l  niad(;  barrels  and  the  like  t'i)r  market, 
which  \va-  a  very  protitahle  ent(>r])rise  in  the  days  of 
"tar,  ])itch  and  tiiriKMitinc"  in  North  Carolina.  lie 
carried  on  a  fishery  dnrin;.;-  the  tisliim;  seas(jns.  He  was 
fund  of  stock,  and  of  stock  raisinu;  of  all  kinds,  and  j)os- 
sessed  a  larfte  nnndx-r  of  cattle,  sheep,  hous  an<l  the  like. 
His  avo:-ati<jns  were  ali<»nt  the  same  as  jiis  father's,  and 
his  son,  Elisha,  siicceedeil  him  in  the  same  line  of  hnsi- 
ness.  His  fondness  tVir  stock  was  inheriiecl  hy  his  de- 
scendants, and  is  still  ])ossessed,  to  a  hiuii  ileirree,  hy  hi.s 
descendants  of  tiie  ))resenl  day.  lie  was  a  maii;istrate 
in  iiis  county  and  a  mendn-r  of  tlie  Conrt  of  Pleas  and 
(,)narter  Sessions.  lie  cared  lint  little  for  official  life, 
hnt  ])referre<l  a  ipiiet  home  life  in  cumpany  with  his 
wife,  and  with  his  possessions.  He  kept  well  informecl 
as  to  the  current  e\cnls  nf  the  limes,  and  had  ids  small 
lihrarv  of  bo(^ks  around  him.  ihc  rea<linii  of  wiiirh  he 
much  enjoyed. 

His  wife  was  tlie  sister  of  .lnhn  ('o|ieland,  ami  auni 
of  James  ("opeland,  who  represented  Hertford  County 
in  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  .\orth  Carolina 
(reneral  Assembly,  in  ISlM  and  ISi':!.  ami  in  the  Senate, 
in  lsi'4  and  182,-).  ^^ 

'I'honias  \Yinborne  died  in  the  early  jiart  of  the  BIh 
century,  leavinjr  snrvivinir  him  his  widow  and  two  chil- 
dren, Elisha,  who  was  horn  Xovendier  (i,  17'-'2,  auil 
Sarah  Anatha  Winhorne,  about  17'.I4.  Of  these  two 
children  1  will  speak  later  mi  in  tliis  book.      The  widow 


28  The  Winborne  Family.  • 

of  Thomas,  souu'tiiue  ;iflcr  his  death,  luarried  Mr. 
Roberson,  and  by  that  inarriaiic  slie  left  one  child,  An- 
geline,  who  was  boni  about  1S12  and  died  in  Missis- 
sii)pi  December  <:,  IssT.  Ani>,eline  never  married.  A 
few  yeai-s  ])rior  to  bei'  (k'ath  she  visited  my  father  and 
my  aunt,  Caroline  iloore,  in  M urf reesboro.  I  remem- 
ber her  as  a  handsome,  whitediaired,  aristocratic  old 
lady,  well  formed,  literary  in  her  taste,  and  a  great 
talker.  1  think  her  fatbcT  moved  to  Mississippi,  and 
died  there.  He  sold  his  farm  in  Hertford  to  Elisha 
Winborne,  who  owned  it  when  he  died.  It  was  sold  by 
Elisha's  administrator,  as  appears  on  the  account  of 
sales  now  in  my  possession. 

I  have  the  will  of  Charles  Jenkins,  of  Hertford 
County,  an  ancestor  of  my  Avife,  and  Tlnimas  Winborne 
and  Sarah  Winborne  are  witnesses  to  it. 

The  records  of  Hertford  County  prioi'  to  August  22, 
Is.'iO,  were  destroyed  by  the  burning  of  the  court-house 
by  one  Wright  Allen,  who  was  indicted  for  forgery,  and 
on  account  of  the  destruction  of  the  records,  I  am  un- 
able to  give  more  infoi-nuition  of  my  old  ancestors.  I 
have  had  to  rely  on  old  private  |iapers,  letters  and  mem- 
oranda, found  in  my  father's  paiiers,  and  the  records  of 
other  counties,  and  a  mass  of  old  papers  which  have 
accumulated  in  my  possession  in  the  course  of  my  prac- 
tice as  an  attorney.  Thomas  and  his  wife  lived  true 
and  nolde  lives,  and  were  greatly  respected  by  the 
peo])le  among  whom  they  lived.  N^o  greater  legacy 
could  they  have  left  their  posterity.  Their  names  and 
characters  T  reverence  and  admire. 

llis  uncle,  Thomas  Winborne,  and  his  wife,  Sarah, 


JOHN  isrOTSUiiiJli  AMiKUsciX. 

ST.  LOL'l^,  5IU, 

'iraiiilson  ol  A.  M.  (iurley  and  wife  Sarah  K.    Son  cif 
llielrdauslili-r  Julia  Ijy  first  niarriasc. 


Thomas  Wixbor.xe.  29 

lived  in  Xorthaiupton  County,  in  tlie  Rich  Square 
neiglilxjriiood,  or  rather  his  hiuds  were  situated  on  (Quar- 
ter Swamp,  in  that  cuuutv.  Quarter  Swamp  lies  be- 
tween Bryant's  Cross  Roads  and  tiie  Roanoke  River,  its 
waters  passing  from  the  west  to  the  east,  and  empty  into 
Trahaw  Swamp,  which  runs  uearly  uortii  and  south, 
au<]  its  waters  nni  uurtli  aud  (•iu|)ty  into  Potecasi  Creei<, 
and  tlie  latter  into  Mcljcrriu  River,  about  one  mile 
alx)ve  its  mouth,  in  Hertford  County.  Trahaw  Swamp 
lies  between  the  townis  of  Potecasi  and  Woodland.  It 
is  necessary  to  know  the  location  of  these  waters  in  order 
to  locate  the  lands  of  the  Xorthauiplon  Winborne  fami- 
lies and  the  Winbornc-.Teid^ins  lau<ls,  <d'  whicli  we  will 
speak  later. 

Williaiu  Saunders,  July  :;,  IT-")*^.  conveyed  to  Thomas 
Winl)orne,  Sr..  a  tract  of  laud  <iu  Qiuirter  Swaiuj),  a 
part  of  Josej)h  Lane's  ]i;/ktent.  The  dceil  beitij;  witnessed 
by  James  Grant  aud  Thoiuas  IFuglies.  Tiiomas  Win- 
borne,  ^larcii  li'.  \~t\-2.  cuuvcyed  this  same  land  to 
James  Grant. 

There  was  a  third  Thomas  Winliornc.  lie  lived  in 
Hertford  Coimty  at  a  later  ju'riod  than  either  of  the 
other  two,  but  of  a  different  ancestry.  See  chapter 
headed  "Bertie  Couiitv." 


^ 


yo  TiiK  Wi.xiioK.NK  Family. 


SARAH  AGATHA  WINBORNE. 

Was  tlio  sister  of  Elislia  Wiiiborne.  She  married 
John  Giirley,  of  ^lurfreesboro,  N.  C,  the  son  of  Rev. 
Hector  Gnrley,  of  Hertford  Connty,  and  his  wife.  John 
Gnrley  was  a  school  teaelier  in  Murfreesboro  at  the 
Hertford  Academy,  wliich  stood  on  the  lot  later  known 
as  the  Peter  Williams  residence  lot.  Eev.  Hector  Gnr- 
ley was  an  Episcopal  preacher  in  Hertford  Connty,  both 
before  and  during  the  Ticvolntionary  period.  He  was 
a  ripe  scholar  and  a  strong  defender  of  the  English 
Crown  and  the  Established  Clmrch  of  England.  He 
preached  at  St.  Lulsc's  Chapel  at  r.uckhorn,  and  at  St. 
John's  Chapel.  He  died  about  the  close  of  the  war  of 
1776,  and  left  surviving  him  two  sons,  John  and 
Thonuis.  The  former  married  the  sidiject  of  this  sketch, 
and  they  had  two  childrou,  .Vlbert  Michael  and  Joseph. 
The  latter  died  in  Alabanui,  lea\-ing  a  widow  and  one 
daughter.  Albert  ifichael  moved  to  Columbus,  Miss., 
in  lS3fi,  and  engaged  in  the  saddle  and  harness  business. 
Before  going  to  Mississi])pi  he,  in  1S35,  spent  about  five 
months  in  Elizabeth  City,  X.  C,  as  clerk.  In  1839  he 
visited  T^orfolk,  Va.,  and  Manney's  Xeck,  in  Hertford 
Ciiuuty,  to  see  his  kin.  He  returned  to  his  new  home 
the  same  year,  and  nnirried,  Jaimary  13,  1847,  Miss 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Moore,  Jackson,  Miss.,  the  daughter  of 
John  Spottswood  Moore  and  his  Avife,  Mary  V.  Murry, 


ALltKKT  Mlt'HAKL  <ilKl.KV. 

l.XTK  <►!•  MKKIDI.W.  MISS. 

Son  olMuhti  liurley  and  wile  Sarah 
Aijnlha  (Jmiey  n^e  Wiiihorrio. 


Saeah  Acatiia  \\']-m;i>i;.\i.:.  31 

iif  lliat  city,  and  reared  a  family  of  three  sons,  Hayden 
L.,  Jolin  Albert,  and  Fi'aneis  Asijury,  and  four  daugh- 
ters, Lucy,  Jidia  il.,  Alary  \'.,  and  Sarah  Agatha. 

Lucy  died  August,  1SS2,  aged  17  years.  Julia  mar- 
ried a  ilr.  ('.  B.  Anderson,  and  iuui  several  children. 
He  died,  and  she  married  8.  B.  Barrish,  and  they  now 
live  in  Columbia,  Tenn.  I  liave  received  several  letters 
from  her.  She  has  a  daughter  by  her  first  marriage, 
-Miss  Sadie  Anderson,  living  in  Ah-ridian,  iliss.,  and 
.Fiihn  Siiotswuod  Anderson,  who  lives  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

-Miss  Sarah  Agatha  Gurley  died  \\)rU  HO,  1905,  in 
.Meridian.  She  never  married.  Only  two  of  the  Gurley 
childi'en  are  living,  ilrs.  Barrish,  and  Ilayden  L.  Gur- 
ley, ilcridian,  Miss. 

ALiry  mari'ied  a  .Mr.  Bullock,  a  prosperous  merchant 
in  Louisville,  Aliss.,  and  left  several  children.  The 
lx)ys  in  IS'JO  were  engaged  in  the  saddlery  and  harness 
business  in  ileridian  under  the  firm  name  of  Gurley 
Bros.  Their  mother  died  in  April,  1877,  and  their 
father  died  February  14,  18!t7,  aged  7S  years  and  two 
months.  He  was  born  in  MurfreeslMiro,  X.  (".,  Septem- 
ber IG,  ISls.  Albert  il.  Gurley  di«i  nut  live  long  in 
Columbus  before  he  moved  to  Canton,  in  same  State, 
where  he  reared  his  family. 

Rev.  C.  G.  Andrews,  in  a  written  sketch  of  his  life, 
character  and  worth,  speaks  with  great  laudation  of  his 
Christian  cliaracter,  his  splendid  influence  in  his  city 
and  in  his  church,  and  as  a  man  wlHwe  great  industry 
was  guided  by  a  broad  and  masterly  intellect  and  well 
poised  mind. 

In  1875  he  moved  with  his  family  to  ileridian,  in  the 


3y  The  Winbobne  Family. 

same  State,  where  he  lived  imtil  his  death.  He  accumu- 
lated a  larjj'e  estate,  and  his  sous,  in  the  fall  of  1890, 
succeeded  him  in  Ids  Inisiui-ss,  after  he  retired  in  his 
old  age,  and  wn-e  doing  well  and  were  prominent  citi- 
zens in  that  city  of  about  35,000  inhabitants.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  ]\Iethodist  Churcli.  I-  gathered  the 
iihoxe  facts  from  a  lettei-  I  found  written  by  him  to  my 
father,  dated  October  ■^.  ISilO.  In  that  letter  he  speaks 
of  his  mother,  who  died  when  he  was  young,  as  did,  also, 
Ins  father,  and  speaks  affectionately  of  his  uncle,  Elisha 
Winborne,  his  cousins,  and  expresses  a  hope  to  be  able 
once  again  to  visit  IMurfreesboro  and  Manney's  Neck, 
wliere  his  happy  young  days  were  spent,  and  com- 
mune, before  the  end  came,  with  Jiis  kin  and  old 
friends,  wlio  might  be  living,  lie  failed  to  tell  in  his 
letter  what  kin,  if  any,  was  his  grandfatlier.  Hector 
Gurley,  to  Eev.  "\Vm.  Gurley,  of  Hertford  County,  a 
Bai)tist  preacher  in  that  county,  and  who  also  preached 
at  St.  Luke's  and  St.  -lolin's  ('ha]iels  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary period. 

On  .Tune  24,  1905,  I  received  a  letter  from  Hayden 
L.  Gurley,  of  Meridian,  Miss.,  telling  me  of  the  death 
of  all  his  brothers  and  sisters  except  his  sister  Julia. 
His  sister  Julia,  in  one  of  her  letters  to  me,  speaks  of 
finding  letters  among  her  father's  i)apers  from  his 
cousins,  S.  D.  Winborne  and  R.  H.  Winliorne,  and  that 
she  has  them  now.  ^Ir.  A.  il.  Gurley,  in  his  letter  to 
my  father,  speaks  of  the  deatli  of  their  half  aunt,  Ang-ie 
Roberson.  She  was  the  daughter  of  the  widow  of  my 
great  grandfather,  Tliomas  Winborne,  who  after  his 
death  married  Mr Roberson.     She  is  spoken 


Mlts.  >AI;aI1    Kl.l/.AIiKTIl  i.l   lil.EV  ,i,e  M(  m  1|;|:. 
WilV  1)1  A.  M.  liiiilcv. 


Sakah  Agatua  Wixborne. 


33 


<jf,  also,  in  oiif  of  my  father's  letters,  in  1845,  to  his 
brother  Kolx-rt.  Elisha  Winhoriie  boiiiilit  of  ilr.  Rob- 
ersou  his  tract  of  land  iu  Hertford  County,  when  the 
latter  niove<l  to  Mississippi.  The  land  was  sold  at  the 
sale  of  Elisha's  property  in  182!l  by  his  administrator 
to  Ely  llarrell,  as  appears  from  the  account  of  sales. 
Since writin<>:  the  above  I  have  learned  of  A.E.Gurley, 
Williamantic,  Comi.,  that  lie  had  a  complete  history 
and  ficnealogy  of  the  Gurley  family.  I  wrote  to  him 
and  soon  learned  from  him  that  my  facts  about  the  fam- 
ily were  correct,  and  that  he  had  a  complete  history  of 
the  family,  both  iu  the  old  countries  and  iu  .\merica, 
hack  to  the  year  117.5.  The  original  one,  so  far  as  his 
record  goes,  being  Ingelram  de  Gurley,  who  accompa- 
nied "William  the  Lion''  from  Xormaudy,  Erance,  to 
Scotland  as  his  legal  advisor. 


34  The  Wixbokne  Family. 


ELISHA  WINBORNE. 

The  son  of  Thomas  Wiuborue  and  his  wife,  Sarah, 
(lied  July  30th,  1829,  in  his  ;57th  year.  Like  his  father, 
ami  his  oldest  and  yonngest  sons,  his  life  was  short,  but 
he  left  the  record  <>{  a  true  life,  <d'  which  his  family  was 
|)nnid.  lie  left  no  proud  uiilitary  record  or  official 
Fa  nil'  as  a  Iciiacy  to  his  sons,  for  his  short  manhood  was 
s|)('Ut  in  times  of  peace.  He  tilh'd  ni:i  great  civil  office, 
fur  his  life  was  short,  and  by  nature,  like  his  father,  he 
hived  his  hdiiie  and  his  faunly  better  than  he  did  the 
allni'iiig  phantiaiis  df  public  life.  Further,  he  sprang 
fnnii  a  faDuly  \\li(>  considered  tiie  realities  of  life  more 
than  the  siuidows.  He  inherited  the  vim.  industry,  fru- 
gality, and  character  of  his  ])areuts. 

On  Ai)ril  1,  isili,  he  married  Miss  Martha  Warren, 
(if  S(intham])t(iu  County,  Virginia,  the  daughter  of 
Kthelred  AVarren,  and  a  wouum  of  sublime  Christian 
character.    1  will  sjieak  of  lier  more  ])articularly  later  on. 

Klisha,  (luring  his  short  life,  accumulated  a  creditable 
estate  for  those  days.  He  was  no  large  property  holder, 
no  wealthy  man,  but  a  comfortable  liver.  His  sister's 
brother,  Eobert  Warren,  in  Se])temher,  1839,  qualified 
as  administrator  of  his  estate,  and  on  December  31, 
1829,  had  a  general  sale  of  his  ])roperty.  I  have  in  my 
possession  the  account  of  sales  of  tlie  property,  which  is 
to  me  quite  an  interesting  old   document.      It  records 


Ml!.  Kl.lsiiA  \viMi<ii;.\i:. 

nK  HEHTKOKIi   lOfNTV.  N.  (  . 

IMeM  in  1S2!):  Aw.!  :!7  ywir-. 


Elisha  Wixjjoknk.  35 

tlif  iiafni'e  of  liis  ])ni]HTfy,  ;iii<l,  also,  rcvt-als  tlic  iiiaii- 
niT  of  scrtliiii>-  tlic  estate  of  a  <lea<l  man  in  those  days. 
Kverytliiiio-  was  sold.  The  family  liiiile  was  sold  and 
hoiiaht  hy  the  widow.  His  three  farms,  -'the  Home 
])laiitatioii."'  "llie  Roherson  ])laiitation,"'  and  '•the  Lower 
plantation,"  were  sold  at  the  sale.  Three  slaves,  Ca-sar. 
•laeoh  and  Willis,  were  sold.  1  reinendier  these  old 
slaves  w(dl.  They  were  owned  hy  my  father.  Ca-sar 
died  dnrinii  slavery  times,  .laeoh  and  Willis  remained 
with  my  father  ami  were  faithfnl  to  the  close  of  the 
lale  Civil  War  hetween  the  States.  No  slaves  ever  had 
a  kinder  and  a  more  hnmane  master  than  did  these  old 
servants.  They  love<l  their  yonnj>-  master,  and  wonld 
have  fought  for  him  nnder  any  eireiimstanees. 

There  were  sold  horses  and  a  (•om]>leU'  oiiiHt  for  a 
well  ke])t  three  or  fonr-horse  farm,  an  am[(le  snpply  of 
provisions  of  all  kinds,  carpenter  and  cooper's  tools,  and 
such  a  variety  of  harrels  that  woidd  indicate  that  he  had 
a  harrei  factoi'y,  which  was  a  great  and  prolilaiile  enter- 
jirise  in  those  days.  The  old-lime  ■"gig"  was  sold.  The 
fishing  ontfit.  A  nnndier  of  cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  and  the 
like,  tlie  hnnlsman's  gnns,  the  hnnting  horn,  hridles  ami 
saddles,  the  flax-wheel,  the  s]»inning-wheel,  lihrary  of 
l)ooks,  and  nearly  everything  that  conld  he  fonml  on  a 
well  regulated  jdantation  can  he  found  in  the  account 
of  sales.  Elisha  Winliornc,  I  wonld  jmlge,  was  not 
only  fond  of  tilling  the  soil,  raising  stock,  ami  fishing, 
hnt  that  he  was  also  fond  of  the  sport  of  hnnting.  and  of 
the  flesh  of  the  venison,  an<l  oi  the  mnsic  of  tlu-  chase. 
The  ■"Lower  ]>lan(ation'"  was  the  Co|)(dand  land,  and  he 
inherited  tliat  thronnh  his  mother. 


36  The  Winborne  Family. 

Tlic  c-liililrt'ii  of  Elislia  and  _Martha  were: 

ilicajali  Tlidinas  Winborne,  born  February  4,  1820. 

Samnol  Danlcii  Winborne,  born  Alarch  7,  1821. 

Margaret  Ann  Winlmrne,  born  November  18,  1822. 

Caroline  Ann  \'\'inl)()rne,  born  May  '■>,  1824. 

Robert  Henry  U'inborne,  liorii  .Inly  21),  1826. 

Kieliard  Winborne.,  born  Ans;'ust  1,  1828. 

Tile  niotlier  and  all  tbe  children,  except  Margaret 
.\iiii,  wlio  die<|  ill  infancy,  .survived  tbe  husband  and 
father.  ^Margaret  and  liev  father  were  bnried  in  the 
family  graveyard  on  the  r)ld  homestead,  by  the  side  of 
I  heir  parents  and  grandparents.  The  widow  and  her 
ti\-e  little  ehildren  were  left  to  battle  with  tlie  storms 
and  adversities  of  life.  The  children  began  early  to 
learn  the  responsibilities  of  life,  ami  that  fact  was 
probably  a  great  help  to  them  in  after  life.  Fortu- 
nately, however,  for  the  widow  and  the  fatherless  chil- 
dren, IJoliert  Warren,  the  batcheh.ir  brother  of  the 
widow,  took  uKither  and  children  to  his  home,  wdiere  the 
willow  found  a  charming  home,  with  one  of  tlie  truest 
and  noblest  Virothers  that  has  ever  lived,  and  the  chil- 
dren, not  only  fotmd  an  uncle,  but  another  father,  wdiom 
they  always  reverenced,  loved  and  respected  in  the  high- 
est degree.  Tiie  home  of  Robert  Warren  was  made  the 
home  of  Elisha  Winbome's  family,  and  is  still  the  home 
of  Kobert  Warren's  gran<l  nephew,  Samuel  P.  Win- 
borne. A  nniiiber  (d'  the  family  were  buried  on  the 
soiitliern  hill  on  the  old  ('edar  Hill  farm.  Elisha  Win- 
borne's  life  was  short,  but  sincere  and  lionorable.  A 
true  citizen,  devoted  husband,  sincere  friend,  and  an 
honest  and  highly  respected  gentleman. 


Elisha  Wixbokne.  37 

lie,  like  liis  father,  and  liis  grandfather,  left  a  fair 
estate,  sufficient  to  paj'  all  of  iiis  debts  and  leave  a  small 
estate  to  each  of  his  children.  IIo  was  a  consistent 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Mt.  Tabor,  in  his  na- 
tive county. 

The  account. -rt'  sales  of  his  property,  a  copy  of  which 
1  liave,slK)Ws  tluft  Nicholas  ,\ske\v  bought  his  "Robersou 
plantaiidU,"  and  VAy  Ilarrcl  bought  his  "Lower  planta- 
tion,'' and  the  "Hdme  ))lantation"'  was  bid  off  by 
Thomas  IJritton,  who  transferred  his  bid  to  Henry 
Lacetter.  These  lands  were  subsequently  purchased  by 
Perry  Carter,  of  Murfreesboro,  who  con\eyed  a  portion 
of  them  to  the  late  Joseph  Xcwsom  and  a  portion  to 
>>"at!ian  S.  lloggard.  Of  the  remainder  I  am  not  able 
to  learn.  Tiionuis  Britton  bouglit  his  library  of  books, 
who  died  ami  left  two  sons,  \V.  T.  Jiritton  and  Jack  Brii- 
ton,  both  of  whom  have  gran<lchildren  in  Hertford 
County.  I  have  made  a  diligent  but  ineffectual  effort 
to  get  some  of  these  books  from  that  family. 


38  The  Winuorxe  Family. 


MARTHA  WARREN. 

The  wife  of  Elisha  W'iiiborue  was  born  January  25, 
1795,  at  the  Warren  homestead  in  Sontliainptou  County, 
Virginia,  adjoining  my  father's  farm. 

Martha  was  of  tlie  noblest  type  of  true  womanhood. 
She  was  always  bright,  cheerful  and  happy  in  disposi- 
tion, strong  in  character.  She  had  light  hair  and  fair 
complexion,  large  and  liandsome,  and  attractive,  even  in 
her  old  age,  and  loved  by  all  who  knew  her.  She  lived 
a  cheerful  and  beautiful  Christian  life,  and  was  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Baptist  church  u]i  to  her  death. 
It  was  always  refreshing  to  be  with  her  and  hear  her 
talk,  as  she  was  interesting  at  all  times.  There  never 
was  a  mother  more  respected  and  really  loved  by  her 
children,  n<pr  a  graudmotlier  more  loved  by  her  grand- 
children than  ilartha  Winborne.  After  a  long  and 
happy  life  and  after  shedding  so  nuich  sunshine  in  the 
lives  of  so  many  people,  she  died  December  23,  1S78,  in 
iior  S4th  year.  She  was  the  ninth  child  of  a  family  of 
twelve  children.  Iler  yiKnt  ^'ront  grandfather  was 
Samuel  Warren,  who  purchased  the  Warren  homestead, 
now  in  Southampton  County.  Va.,  but  then  in  Nanse- 
moud  Comity,  Va.,  from  William  Gooch,  March  31, 
lT3fi.  Tliis  deed  is  now  in  my  possession.  It  is  a 
curious  old  document.  Tier  father  was  Ethelred  War- 
ren, son  of  Samuel,  and  he  was  born  January  16,  1749. 


;M.ujtiia  Wakkex.  39 

Ilcr  mother  was  ^fargaret  Kiddiek  Darden  (who  was 
bom  February  2."i,  ITCiD),  and  the  wife  of  Ethelred 
Warren.  They  were  married  October  12,  1775.  Ethel- 
red  died  October  W,  l.S()7,  and  .Marsraret,  liis  wife,  died 
ilay  12,  1S:]4.  The  offs]iring.s  of  this  marriage  were 
twelve  eliildreu,  as  follows: 

Ann  Warren,  born  Augnst  10,  177G,  and  married 
Allen  ^loore. 

Samuel  Warren,  born  .Inne  1(!.  177s,  and  died  July 
3,  1789. 

Pleasant  li.  Warren,  iwirn  December  2!),  1781. 

Jetliro  Warren,  bnrn  OctoU-r  27,  17s-'5,  and  moved  to 
(ireene  County,  X.  ('.,  and  there  married.  He  died 
leaving  one  child,  Richard  I).  Warren,  who  lived  in 
Snow  Hill,  (ireene  ("ounty.  X.  ('.,  and  married  there 
and  i-eared  a  large  family,  several  <if  wiiom  are  now  liv- 
ing in  that  cunnly.  I  remcndx-r  seeing  him  when  on  a 
visit  at  my  faihers  home,  when  I  was  a  very  small 
boy.  Aly  reciillection  uf  him  is,  that  he  was  tall  and 
slender,  with  dark  hair  and  beard.  I  have  in  my  pos- 
session a  letter  from  him  to  grandma  .Martha,  dated 
Snow  Hill,  N.  ('..  OctolK'r  2S,  ISGn,  in  which  he  speaks 
of  his  family,  and  the  sad  results  of  the  war  reducing 
his  financial  condition  froni  one  of  easy  comfort  to  one 
one  of  hard  struggle  to  su])port  hi.s  family. 

Elizabeth  Warren,  l)orn  April  10,  1788,  and  first  mar- 
ried Thomas  Weston,  of  Hertford  Count,v.  He  died 
and  she  married  Thomas  Gritlith.  There  were  no  chil- 
dren by  either  marriage. 

Edith  Warren,  Iwrn  December  29,  178.5,  and  married 
John  Moore. 


40  The  Winborne  Family. 

Etliclrcd  Warren.  Jr.,  liorn  April  9,  1790.  He  mar- 
ried Lydia  Mnrdniigli,  df  a  ]iroininent  Virginia  family. 
She  was  very  liaiid.'^oiiie  and  foud  of  social  life.  I  found 
among  my  grandma's  old  letters,  an  artistic  little  card, 
on  which  was  written  the  following: 

"Mrs.  Lydia  B.   Warren  will  receive  com- 
l^any  on  Fri<hiy,  (Itli  May,  at  7  o'clock  p.  m." 

This  card  was  enclosed  in  an  envelope  equally  as  ar- 
tistic, and  directed  to  "Mrs.  Martha  Winborne."  The 
year  is  not  given. 

These  were  the  parents  of  the  late  Joseph  E.  Warren 
and  William  G.  Warren,  and  the  grandparents  of  the 
present  Ryland  Warren,  son  of  Joseph,  and  Miss  Sallie 
Warren,  the  daughter  nf  William. 

Ixyland  still  owns  the  old  Warren  Homestead,  and 
Sallie  lives  at  her  father's  old  homestead  on  Meherrin 
River,  in  Manney's  Neck,  in  Hertford  County. 

Robert  Warren,  born  July  C^,  1792.  He  lived  and 
died  on  his  "CV'dar  Hill  Farm,"  in  ilanney's  Neck,  in 
Hertford  County.  Of  this  splendid  person  I  will  speak 
later. 

Martha  Warren,  boni  Janiuiry  25,  179.5,  and  became 
the  wife  of  Elisha  Winborne. 

Margaret  Riddick  Warren,  named  for  her  mother, 
was  born  Decendu'r  :],  1797.  She  died  in  1S81  in  her 
S4th  year.      She  never  married. 

Priscilla  Warren,  born  April  28,  1801,  and  married 
Perry  Carter,  of  Murfreesboro,  N.  C,  a  man  of  wealth 
and  of  large  business  interests,  and  a  gentleman  of  aris- 
tocratic bearings.      Thev  reared   a   family  of  several 


Maetha  \Vai;ue.\.  41 

(liiughters  and  one  son,  all  of  whom  were  liiglily  edu- 
cated and  greath'  adorned  the  social  circles  of  their  day. 
Tiiey  have  one  daughter  now  living,  Miss  Ellen  Victoria 
Carter,  who  was  a  great  heauty  wlien  young,  and  who 
was  imicii  admired  l)y  a  host  of  siiiti>rs,  all  of  whom  she 
declined.  She  is  now  living  at  the  Old  Homestead  in 
.Miirfreesboro,  X.  C,  with  one  of  their  granddaughters, 
iliss  Pri.scilla  Warren  Williamson.  They  were  the 
parents  of  the  late  distinguished  Hajitist  divine.  Rev. 
.Jose|)li  Iv  Carter.  They  have  grandchildren,  also,  in 
Kaleigli,  X.  (".,  (Mrs.  John  E.  Ray),  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  in  Colorado,  in  Florida,  anti  in  tiie  northwest.  They 
are  a  very  intellectual  people. 

-Mr.  Carter  was  the  family  bidder  at  the  sale  of  the 
])roperty  of  my  grandfather,  Elisha  Winborne,  in  De- 
cember. 1>!29. 

Sanuiel  Darilen  Warrt'U.  horn  heceiiiiier  4.  ISO."*,  and 
died  .Itme  7,  ISIS.  Their  first  ciiild,  whom  thev 
named  Samuel,  died  at  eleven  years  of  age,  au<l  the  sec- 
ond oni',  named  Samuel,  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen. 

Of  the  above  large  family  of  children  but  few  of  their 
<leseendants  are  now  living. 

Ethelred  Warren,  their  father,  served  in  the  Conti- 
nental army  of  ITTt!  for  American  freedom  and  was  evi- 
dently an  officer  of  high  rank.  Ilis  old  sword,  gun  and 
two  pistols,  epaulettes,  used  in  the  war  of  1776,  re- 
mained at  my  old  home,  in  the  ]ios.session  of  grandma 
Martha,  up  to  the  time  T  left  home  for  school  in  1871. 
What  became  of  them  after  that,  I  do  not  know  and  can 
not  find  out,  except  that  my  brothers  and  sisters  tell  me 
it  is  ]n'obable  they  were  destroyed  in  a  fire  that  con- 
6 


42  The  Winborne  Family. 

sunied  an  old  house  in  the  coruer  of  the  yard,  iu  which 
many  of  the  old  family  relics  were  stored.  Grandma 
regarded  them  as  sacred  hcirlndias,  and  she  so  often,  in 
my  hoyhood  days,  interested  me  in  telling  me  about  the 
war  tales  which  she  learned  from  her  father.  lie  was 
in  the  battle  at  Yorktown  when  (Jen.  Cornwallis  sur- 
rendered his  arms. 

Ethelred  Warren,  the  l)rother  of  grandma,  served  in 
the  war  of  1812  in  Captain  Sebrell's  company,  of  South- 
ampton County,  Ya.  He  was  a  gallant  and  brave  sol- 
dier, and  a  ])atriotic  and  devoted  Virginian.  He  was 
mustered  out  of  the  army,  after  the  war,  in  the  city  of 
Norfolk,  Va.,  and  walked  home,  in  company  with  two 
army  eompanions.  AVlim  he  reached  home  he  re- 
marked, so  we  have  l)een  told  by  the  older  members  of 
tlie  family,  that  he  was  about  exhausted,  and  that  if 
lioiiio  had  been  one  Imudrcd  yards  further  he  would 
have  fallen  by  the  wayside. 

Ethelred  Warren,  Sr.,  although  he  lived  in  Virginia, 
I  find  from  the  records  of  the  Secretary  of  State's  oifice 
in  Raleigh,  a  grant  to  him  from  the  iState  of  36  acres  of 
laud  iu  ]\Ianney's  Neck,  dated  Xovendier  17,  1790,  ly- 
ing on  Poplar  Branch,  and  adjoining  the  lands  of  Carr, 
Ridlev  and  .Tethro  Darden. 


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l>k"i|  ill  1SI2  ill  Moliile.  AIh. 


r.  WINItoKM-;. 

(if  Vi'IImu   1-..V.., 


I u'-'il  Si  >i'ar>. 


AIlCAJAU    TllUilA.S    W'lNUIJUNK.  4'i 


MICAJAH  THOMAS  WINBORNE. 
."*  •* 

Necessity  is  a  fipvcrc  master.  Oltt-dienee  t(j  tliity  ex- 
cites atiiiiiratidii.  Devotion  to  iiiotiiiM-,  lirotluM-,  sister, 
aiul  iiiiclc.  and  love  of  fellownian.  arc  snhlinic  traits  of 
liiiiiiiiii  ciiaractcr.  Tlicv  arc  possessed  bv  tiic  uol)ic  and 
tile  true.  Siicii  was  the  vonuji  I'lan  wiiosc  name  appears 
alMJVc.  Fatherless,  witii  a  \vido\vc(l  inotlicr  with  live 
yoiiuj;  chihlrcn  ile])cndent  almost  entirely  ii])on  the 
b(tiinty  anil  love  of  his  nncic,  Kolx-rt  Warren,  for  sup- 
port, thi-  yoiiiiir  man  felt  the  necessity,  at  an  early  age, 
of  makin'r  an  eti'ort  to  relieve  his  uncle  and  assist  in  the 
sup]Kiri  and  welfare  of  his  mother  anil  brothers  and  sis- 
ter. He  was  llic  .ildisi.  At  the  early  asje  of  fifteen 
years,  we  find  liini  i-lerkini;  for  Lewis  .M.  ("owper,  in 
Mtn-frcosboro,  X.  ('.,  where  lie  remained  abiuit  fifteen 
months.  Mr.  Cowjicr  havinj;:  closed  his  business  to  accept 
office,  youuii'  AViid)orne  finds  employmeni  with  Webb  \- 
("a])eliart.  in  Windsor.  X.  ('..  where  he  remained  for 
about  two  years,  when  he  soUjLrlit  and  obtained  a  situa- 
tion with  Paul  it'  Peirram,  of  X'orfolk.  Va.,  and  after  a 
while  he  seeks  a  still  more  lucrative  em]doynu'ni  in  the 
city  of  Paltimore,  and  while  there  his  services  were 
soufiht  by  W.  II.  i-  Ti.  TJnrdsall,  a  larire  mercantile  firm 
in  ^lobile,  Ala.,  where  he  went  in  Octolx'r,  1S42.  Hut 
the  youns:  life,  so  full  of  promise,  was  soon  ended.  In 
Sei)tember,  1843,  he  was  taken  sick  with  yellow  fever. 


44  The  Wi.nbokxe  Family. 

and  after  an  illness  of  two  days,  on  September  19th, 
l'^4;!,  he  ])ass('d  awav.  far  from  the  land  of  his  nativity 
and  the  loved  ones  at  Jiome,  who  thought  of  Mike  as  an 
ideal  Imy,  At  flic  request  of  .Madam  Le  Vert,  wife  of 
Dr.  11.  S.  I.e  Vert,  he  was  Iniried  in  the  city  cemetery, 
ill  the  ])rivate  lui  of  that  gocid  lady,  by  the  side  of  his 
yonng  companion,  a  Mr.  Scott,  from  Virginia,  who  died 
from  the  same  cause  about  the  same  honr.  A  beautiful 
monument  was  erected  at  his  grave  by  his  new  made 
friends.  The  letters  from  -Tames  Thomas  Smith,  A.  G. 
Parker,  Xelson  Parker,  and  others,  of  Mobile,  to  my 
father  (and  now  in  my  possession)  about  the  life,  char- 
acter, death  and  burial  of  his  brother,  are  convincing 
proof  that  he  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem  by  the  best 
people  of  that  city.  The  letters  of  recommendation 
from  his  former  employers,  when  he  went  to  Ijaltimore 
from  Xorfolk,  are  the  most  flattering.  His  letters  indi- 
cate that  he  had  a  very  high  order  of  intellect,  and  was  a 
thoughtful  and  observant  young  man,  far  above  the  aver- 
age. While  in  Xorfolk  he  secured  from  ITfin.  Kenneth 
iiayuur,  a  mend)er  of  Congress  from  Xorth  Carolina, 
the  aiipointment  of  his  brother,  Samuel,  as  a  cadet  to  the 
Pnited  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point.  And 
w  bile  in  Baltimore  I  find  him  writing  to  his  uncle,  Rob- 
ert Warren,  about  bis  brothers,  luibert  and  Richard,  ex- 
])ressing  a  purpose  of  preparing  Robert  for  the  naval 
academy,  and  of  trying  to  secure  his  appointment  from 
Congressman  Rayuor.  Tn  his  letter  lie  writes  that  after 
getting  Robert,  (whom  be  comiiliments  by  referring  to 
him  as  a  very  bright  boy), provided  for, he  will  then  look 
after  his  youngest  brother,  Richard.     He  also  writes  in- 


]\Il(A.IAlI    'I'lKlMAS    WlMii 


45 


telligeiitlv  of  the  ilcliales  in  ( 'oiiiiress,  and  tlic  dilferent, 
k'iuling  statesmen  of  that  i\:\\.  IIo  died  at  the  age  of 
•23.  Ilis  life  was  a  brilliant  meteor  of  merit  anil  native 
ability.  His  lirotlier  Sam  settled  his  estate.  The 
brotherly  devotion  of  the  W'inborne  boys  for  each  other 
is  sublime. 


46  The  Wixbokxe  Family. 


MAJ.  SAMUEL  DARDEN  WINBORNE. 

The  seeoud  cliild  of  Elislia  Winbonie  and  his  wife, 
ilartha.  Gen.  IJohf.  E.  Lee  is  quoted  as  having  said 
tliat  "Duty  is  the  sublimest  word  in  the  English  lan- 
guage," and  all  that  the  word  implies  was  the  guiding 
.star  of  Sanuiel  Darden  AVinborne,  in  his  conduct  as  son, 
citizen  and  father,  and  in  all  the  other  i-elations  of  life. 
He  was  born  on  the  7th  day  of  March,  1821,  in  Winton 
Township,  Hertford  County,  JSTorth  Carolina,  and  died 
on  the  3d  day  of  Ai)ri1,  ISO."),  in  his  seventy-fifth  year. 
His  long  life  was  one  of  activity  and  usefulness.  Hav- 
ing been  left  fatherless  when  about  eight  years  old,  he 
and  his  widowed  mother  and  his  young  brothers  and  sis- 
ter were  taken  Iw  his  batclielor  uncle,  Robert  Warren, 
to  the  farm  of  the  latter  in  Manuey's  Neck  Township, 
of  the  same  county.  \t  this  early  age  he  commenced  to 
dc\-Mtc  liiiusclf  to  the  duties  of  tlio  farm,  and  to  the  care 
and  support  of  those  so  tmfortunately  deprived  of  their 
natural  iirotector.  His  energy,  thoroughness  and  good 
l)usiness  judgment  soon  gained  for  him  the  confidence 
and  affection  of  liis  uncle,  and  made  him  of  great  assist- 
ance and  usefulness.  From  time  to  time  during  his 
youtli,  and  when  his  services  could  be  spared  on  the 
farm,  he  attended  TJuckhorn  Academy  and  made  the 
most  excellent  use  of  liis  opportunities. 


Ma.i.  s.  II.  WIMSciKNE, 

OK  HKU  ll-'01il>  corxTv. 

Died  April  3,  1S95,  ageil  T4  years. 


Ma.j.  Sa>[uel  Dardex  Wixdorxe.  47 

In  1840  he  was  appointoil  hy  I  fun.  Kenneth  Rayuer 
a  cadet  to  the  United  States  ililitary  Academy  at  West 
Point,  where  he  .succeeded  well,  and  was  a  room-mate 
of  the  late  illustrious  Gen.  \V.  S.  Hancock.  As  inter- 
esting evidence  of  liis  pleasant  memories  and  associa- 
tions of  this  ])erio(l  of  his  life,  I  copy  the  following  let- 
ter and  invitation,  now  in  my  possession,  and  found 
among  his  papers  at  his  death: 

'"TiiF,  (^oiii's  OF  Capet.s 

Request  the  ])leasnre  of  the  comjiany  of  ^Fr.  Samuel 
Winborne  at  their  Military  IJall.  to  he  given  on  the  even- 
ing of  the  ;5(llh  of  August. 

>rAXAGEKS. 

C.  T.  Baker,  -1. -T.  ('.  Bibb, 

T.  ('.  Hammond,  W.    T.  Hurwell, 

;M.  Lovell,  W.  1..  Crittenden, 

L.  il'Laws,  W.  S.  Hancock, 

E.  K.  M'Lean,  .\.  Pleasanton, 

II.  .M.  Whiting,  1).  B.  Sacket." 

Written  at  bottom: 

"With  Kksi'ects  of  ai.i.  the  Fellows. 
Camp  Tyler.  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  August  .5th,  1841." 

The  postage  was  25  cents. 

"GovERx's  IsLAxn,  N.  y.,  July  9,  1880. 
My  Deak  Wixborxe  : — I  received  an  hour  since  your 
favor  of  July  5th.  Be  jdea.sed  to  accept  my  thanks  for 
your  recollection.  I  had  a  note  frotn  Peck  a  few  days 
since,  and  then  I  thought  of  you.  and  those  of  our 
friends  who  attemjttcd  to  put  him  out  of  the  window  of 


48  The  \Vix borne  Family. 

Xo.  -'7  'Cnc'liloft,'  North  Barracks.  That  wouhl  be 
considered  'hazing'  to-day.  Your  letter  shows  yon  have 
(hme  well  in  life.      *      *      * 

It  is  qnite  interestinp,-  to  read  of  yonr  past  history 
since  we  have  met,  and  1  am  rejoiced  that  yon  have 
been  enabled  to  do  so  well  for  yonrscif  and  for  yonrs. 
Yonr  views  of  life  and  the  past  are  all  good,  and  it  would 
1)(^  a  i)leasnre  to  see  more  of  yon.  If  matters  turn  out  as 
yon  expect  I  shall  certainly  be  enabled  to  meet  yon,  and 
yon  will  have  bnt  to  let  nie  know  when  you  can  come. 

Gill,  during  ami  subs('(|uent  to  the  war,  was  a  superin- 
tendent of  a  Kentucky  Railroad,  made  a  fortune,  retired 
and,  I  believe,  lately  died. 

Truly  yours,  Winf'd  S.  Hancock. 

Me.  S.  D.  Winborxe.  Bid(Jirl:<:r;]]r.  N.  C. 

What  became  of  Wooten?  "Tar  River"'  (Ilawkin) 
has  died  long  since." 

After  he  had  been  at  West  T'oint  about  <me  year,  his 
own  declining  health,  and  that  of  his  uncle  made  it 
necessary  for  him  to  resign  and  return  home.  Although 
only  about  twenty  years  of  age,  he  at  once  assumed  the 
active  management  of  the  farm,  which  was  afterwards 
devised  to  him  by  his  uncle,  subject  to  the  life  estate  of 
his  mother  and  some  other  changes,  and  again  devoted 
his  energies  to  her  maintenance,  and  to  the  support  and 
education  of  his  younger  brothers  and  sisters.  Their 
gratitude  for  these  struggles  and  sacrifices  of  his  early 
manhood  were  manifested  by  the  warm  devotion  which 
they  entertained  for  him  through  life.  Having  dis- 
charged his  duties  to  them,  on  the  .30th  day  of  March, 


Ma.i.  Samuel  Daudex    Winbokne.  49 

1S50,  lie  was  united  in  marriage  to  >Mi's.  Marv  II.  Mas- 
seiiljurg  (nee  I'retlow),  of  Soiitliaiui)t(.>n  Comity,  Vir- 
ginia, who  was  thereafter  the  loviug,  alfectiouate  and 
faitiifiil  eom])anion  of  his  life,  and  who  survived  him 
ahoiil  five  years.  His  marriage  was  a  happy  one,  aud 
to  the  graeioiis  iufliieiiee,  eoiisiderate  helpfulness,  and 
sweet  Christian  eharaeter  of  his  devoted  wife,  must  be 
airrihiited  iiiueli  of  his  subsequent  success.  As  hus- 
band and  father  he  was  affectionate  and  indulgent,  and 
the  luqipiness,  comfort  and  welfare  of  his  family,  and 
the  education  of  his  children  were  ever  objects  of  his 
loving  solicitude  and  ])ri>videut  care. 

Ill  lN-17  he  was  appointed  on  tlie  staff  of  C(d.  Starkey 
Sliar]!,  of  the  Hertford  County  Militia,  with  the  rank 
of  ^lajor.  Among  his  old  papers  was  found  an  order 
from  Col.  Sharp,  dated  ^lay  7.  ISoO,  commanding  him 
to  attend  a  general  review  in  Wintoii  on  June  0,  1850, 
and  to  advertise  tiie  time  and  i)lace.  At  tiie  oi)ening  of 
the  Civil  War  in  iMll,  when  tlic  militia  was  re-organ- 
ized fi>r  the  conflict,  he  was  elected  Lieutenant  of  the 
company,  of  which  Win.  J.  ^lajctte  was  Ca]>lain.  His 
coiii])any  was  not  called  into  service,  but  during  the  en- 
tire war  he  was  loyal  and  active  in  iiis  support  of  tiie 
Cdiifedera.cv,  and  for  the  greater  [lart  of  the  time  was  a 
]>urciiasing  agent  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department, 
commanded  by  Gen.  Roger  A.  Pryor.  He  was  a  man 
of  vigorous  mind,  strong  will  and  unusual  force  of  char- 
acter. His  devotion  to  his  State  and  county  was  in- 
tense, and  he  was  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him  as  an 
exemplary  citizen,  lie  never  sought  official  position, 
7 


50  The  Winborne  Family. 

but  took  a  deep  interest  in  all  public  questions.  He 
hail  the  courage  of  his  convictions,  and  was  ever  ready 
to  assert  and  uiaintaiu  what  he  believed  to  be  right. 

Before  the  war  he  was  an  ardent  Whig,  but  after- 
wards an  uncompromising  Democrat.  In  1872  he  was 
elected  a  mend)cr  of  the  Board  of  County  Commission- 
ers of  his  county  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  four- 
teen years.  During  much  of  this  time  the  Eepublican 
mendjers  of  the  Board  were  in  the  majority,  and  it  is 
but  just  to  say  that  it  was  duo  in  a  large  measure  to  his 
watchfulness,  efficiency  and  unflinching  courage  that 
the  deplorable  conditions  which  existed,  at  that  time,  in 
so  many  eastern  counties  of  the  State,  never  prevailed  in 
Hertford.  By  his  services  in  this,  at  that  time,  most 
responsible  position,  he  not  only  conferred  lasting  bene- 
fits upon  his  county,  but  earned  and  received  the  grati- 
tude and  esteem  of  all  good  citizens.  He  likewise 
served  as  uuigistrate,  before  and  after  the  war,  and  as 
tax  assessor  in  his  township,  and  here  as  in  all  other 
positions,  piddic  or  private,  he  discharged  his  duties 
faithfully  and  fearlessly. 

As  a  neighlior  he  was  kind  and  considerate,  and  as 
a  friend  proverbially  loyal  and  true.  ITis  helpful  hand 
was  generously  extended  to  every  worthy  ap]3eal  of  the 
suffering  or  unfortunate,  and  among  his  neighbors  he 
was  ever  looked  up  to  for  liis  sound  judgment  and  wise 
counsel.  He  was  frank  and  outspoken  in  all  his  rela- 
tions with  others  and  scorned  decc]ition  and  hypocrisy. 
Tn  his  earlier  life  he  was  not  connected  with  any  relig- 
ious organization,  but  for  some  years  prior  to  his  death 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church  at  Buckhorn. 


^Ia.;.  Sa.mujsl  Darde.n  Win  borne.  51 

Death  came  to  him  svukleiilv,  and  douhtleris  as  ho  would 
have  wished,  while  he  was  still  in  the  full  possession  of 
Iiis  faculties  and  in  the  midst  of  his  family.  A  few 
vears  before,  he  had  beeii  partially  paralyzed,  and  apjja- 
rently  had  almost  recovered  from  its  effects,  when  the 
last  and  fatal  stroke  seized  him  while  conversing  with 
his  family  at  the  dinner  table.  His  remains  were  laid 
to  rest  under  the  shade  of  the  trees  in  the  old  family 
burying  ground  at  Cedar  Hill,  where  his  useful  life  had 
l)een  sj)ent. 

His  children  were  as  follows: 

Clara  Ann,  born  on  the  20tli  day  of  October,  1851, 
and  died  of  ])neumonia  while  at  school  at  the  Chowan 
Haptist  Institute,  in  ifurfreeslKjro. 

Benjamin  Brodie,  born  on  the  14tii  day  of  April, 
1S54,  and  now  living  in  Mnrfreesboro,  X.  C. 

ilary  Elizabeth,  born  on  the  11th  day  of  August, 
lS5(i,  and  died,  as  did  her  sister,  of  ])neumonia,  at  the 
Chowan  Baptist  Institute. 

ifargaret  Ella,  born  on  tiic  Kith  day  ><i'  .\]iri],  1858, 
who  married  L.  J.  Savagi',  of  Norfolk,  \'a.,  and  now 
residing  in  that  city. 

Robert  Warren,  born  October  2.  l^()l,  and  now  liv- 
ing in  Roanoke,  Va. 

Martha  Ann,  born  on  the  28th  day  of  July,  18(U,  and 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Thomas  I.  Burbage,  of  Como,  X.  C. 

Samuel  Pretlow,  born  on  the  HJth  day  of  August, 
18fi(>,  and  now  livinir  at  the  old  homestead,  Cedar  Ilill. 


52  TiiK  Wimj(.)i;nk  Family. 


A  FEW  STRAY  THOUGHTS 

OF 

MY  FATHER,  MAJ.  S.  D.  WINBORNE. 

My  L-arliest  distiiu-t  recollection  oi  my  father  was  in 
l^.'i!)  or  IStiO.  He  was  well  dressed,  rather  slender, 
weight  about  14:5  pounds.  He  was  sitting  at  night  in 
the  family  circle  talking  over  the  excited  condition  of 
the  country  politically,  and  that  he  appi'ehended  that 
the  States  would  soon  be  engaged  in  a  fratrieiilal  war. 
lie  depicted  thc^  horrors  of  war  in  such  a  gra])hic  man- 
ner that  it  made  a  lasting  impression  on  me.  He  was 
a  strong  Whig,  but  when  secession  was  favored  by  his 
State,  he  was  absolutely  loyal. 

lie  was  a  man  of  great  energy,  great  kindness,  yet 
firm  and  as  brave  as  a  lion.  lie  liad  about  forty  slaves, 
and  no  slave  ever  had  a  kin<ler  and  more  considerate 
master.  I  never  knew  him  to  whi]>  but  one  of  his 
grown  slaves,  and  that  T  remember  as  distinctly  as  if  it 
were  of  recent  occurrence.  Edmond,  a  large,  tall,  and 
stort  fellow,  had  treated  one  of  the  slave  women  cruelly 
and  she  complained  to  her  master.  Edmond  kept  shy 
of  bis  master  for  a  day  or  so.  One  rainy  morning  my 
father  went  to  the  barn,  and  Edmond  was  in  the  room 
shelling  corn.  .\s  he  saw  his  master  he  made  an  effort 
to  break  out  of  the  door,  when  his  master  caught  him 
near  the  neck  and  threw  him  to  the  ground  and  bad  him 
tied,  and  he  whijtped  him  good.      This  was  during  the 


.Ma.i.  Samuel  Darde>,-  WixBOENJi.  53 

war,  and  Edmond  ran  away  sliorlly  tlicroat'tcr.  lie 
was  tlie  onlv  one  of  Iiis  t*la\Ts  that  left  him  before  Lee's 
siirrend(>r.  Maiiv  of  tlieiii  stayed  witli  him  for  several 
years  after  the  end  of  hostilities.  He  paid  them  wages 
.fi'om  the  em  I  of  the  war. 

lie  was  a  mend)er  of  the  Home  Oiiard,  and  cue  day, 
while  he  was  drilling  his  men,  back  of  the  Buekhorn 
Academy,  he  gave  the  order  to  donble-quick  (the  mem- 
bers were  not  young),  and  as  they  started,  one  of  the 
front  men  fell  and  abont  a  dozen  others  stumbled  over 
him,  and  the  whole  line  tund)led.  Hut  his  sharp,  shrill 
voice  caused  them  to  (luickly  regain  their  ujjright  posi- 
tion. I  thought  it  a  great  joke  and  T  went  home  and 
related  the  scene  to  my  mother  and  grandmother,  who 
greatly  enjoyed  it. 

He  also  held  civil  offices  and  was  connected  with  the 
Commissary  I)ef)artment  of  the  Confederate  Army  and 
secured  great  quantities  of  su]>])lies  for  the  government. 
While  engaged  in  this  work  he  had  some  vi'ry  narrow 
escapes  from  being  killed  by  the  T'nion  soldiers.  I  was 
with  him  most  of  the  time  and  learned  much  of  the 
real  meaning  of  war.  .\boiit  ten  days  tefore  Lee's  sur- 
render, Lewis'  riiiou  Cavalry  made  a  raid  through 
l\Ianney's  Xeck  and  robbed  every  family  of  nearly  all 
they  had.  They  reached  my  father's  just  after  dinner. 
They  catne  suddenly  and  caught  iny  father  unawares. 
He  was  sitting  in  his  room  loading  his  pistol  as  one  of 
the  number  rushed  in  on  him.  Seeing  the  pistol  the 
Yankee  drew  his  pistol  and  commanded  my  father  to 
surrender  and  give  ii])  his  pistol.  The  latter  refused, 
but  drew  it  on  the  Fnion  officer.      Thev  faced  each  other 


54  The  Winborne  Family. 

for  sevei'al  miiiutey  with  drawn  pistols,  each  threatening 
the  otlier.  I  stood  hy  mv  father  holding  his  coat,  ex- 
pecting to  see  one  or  both  men  killed,  but  the  Union 
officer  was  intimidated  and  failed  to  rob  the  bureau 
drawers  and  other  places  in  the  house,  as  he  intended. 
As  they  went  out  of  the  house  with  their  pistols  dra^\'n 
and  threatening  each  other,  and  got  to  the  yard  gate, 
there  appeared  about  twenty  other  Union  soldiers.  My 
father  then  surrendered  his  pistol.  They  had  every 
mule  and  horse  he  had  bridled  to  take  away,  except  one, 
and  they  ordered  him  to  bridle  that  one.  My  father  re- 
fused, when  another  officer  drew  his  pistol  and  pointed 
it  to  his  ear  and  threatened  immediate  death  if  he  did 
not  obey.  He  looked  the  Yankee  in  the  face  and  said, 
"You  may  kill  me,  but  I  will  not  bridle  my  horse  for 
any  man  to  steal."  They  failed  to  force  him,  and  they 
left,  taking  every  miile  and  horse  with  them.  The  im- 
bridled  one  they  attempted  to  drive.  She  made  her  es- 
cape, in  about  a  mile  from  home,  and  returned  that 
night.  He  always  had  an  extreme  dislike  for  "cant  and 
hypocrisy"  of  all  kinds,  and  he  did  not  conceal  it.  His 
bold  and  fearless  demmciation  of  hypocrisy  and  deceit 
in  men  sometimes  made  him  enemies. 

He  was  a  great  friend  to  the  needy  and  the  dis- 
tressed. He  never  turned  one  off  who  came  to  him  for 
help  for  his  family.  During  the  dark  days  of  war  he 
was  ever  the  friend  of  the  soldier's  family,  and  the- wid- 
owed woman,  and  the  fatherless  children.  He  never 
lost  by  it. 

He  was  a  kind  neighbor  and  friend.  I  remember,  in 
1868,  when  his  neighbor  and  friend,  J.  R.  Darden,  was 


Maj.  Samuel  Dakdex  Winboexe.  55 

all  broken  uj)  and  disheartened  by  the  results  of  the 
war,  he  appealed  to  my  father,  when  the  latter  bought 
his  farm,  took  a  deed  for  it,  paid  him  tlie  money,  and 
told  him  to  renuiin  there,  and  see  if  he  could  recover 
from  his  troubles.  .M  r.  Uarden  rallied  from  his  troubles 
and  my  father,  in  November,  1872,  re-sold  him  the  farm 
for  the  same  he  gave  for  it,  plus  the  interest  on  the  pur- 
chase price.  lie  would  help  his  neighbors,  but  never 
exacted  any  unjust  reward.     These  deeds  arc  on  record. 

He  suffered  largely  by  the  civil  strife,  but  his  ener- 
gies never  Hagged.  and  he  went  to  work  to  rebuild  his 
fortune.  I  was  his  only  child  old  enough  to  bo  of  ser- 
vice to  him.  It  is  the  proudest  act  in  my  life  that  I 
cheerfully  entered  the  struggle  and  rendered  him  every 
assistance  in  my  power.  There  was  no  work  on  the 
farm  that  I  did  not  do  my  part.  I  took  pride  in  enter- 
ing into  his  life  work.  He  showed  his  warm  apprecia- 
tion throughuut  his  life  of  my  early  efforts  in  his  behalf. 
I  so  often  reflect  with  great  pleasure  on  that  struggling 
period  to  rebuild  a  lost  estate. 

In  1867  or  spring  of  186S  I  made  my  first  trip  to 
Winton.  Two  negroes  from  ifanney's  Xeck,  Kiddick 
Britt  and  Jim  ^lyrick,  were  to  be  whipped,  at  the  wiiip- 
ping  post,  fur  stealing  a  yoke  of  o.xcn  from  Capt.  W.  J. 
Majette.  They  carried  the  oxen  to  Portsmouth,  Va., 
sold  tliem  and  came  back  home,  when  they  were  arrested, 
tried,  convicted,  and  sentenced  to  be  whipped.  I  went 
with  father.  K.  G.  Cowper  was  Sheriff  of  the  coimty, 
and  J.  B.  Hare  was  his  deputy.  The  old  whipping 
post  had  been  torn  (Io\\ni  and  the  negroes  were  stripped 
of  their  clothes  to  the  waist  and  swung  to  a  limb  of  a 


ilC)  The  Winborne  Family. 

cedar  tree,  tlieir  feet  hardly  toueliino-  tlie  ground. 
SheriiT  Cowper  whipped  Myrick  ami  Hare  whipped 
Hritt.  As  the  green-parched  hickory  whips  woidd  lash 
ai-iiund  their  unde  bodies  the  skin  woidd  part  and  blood 
ilv.  This  was  the  last  punishment  of  this  kind  inflicted 
ill  this  county.  It  was  cruel  and  barbarcnis.  I  could 
never  favor  such  punishment.  This  common  law  mode 
of  pmiishment  was  abolished  in  North  Carolina,  August 
23,  186S.  Acts  ISiiS,  eh.  44.  Why  was  the  law  not 
changed  earlier  '<  Read  Prescott's  Conquests  of  Peru 
and  of  Mexico.  The  question  is  hard  to  answer, 
although  the  American  people  were  Christianized  and 
civilized. 

My  father  tnld  me  that  he  had  been  informed  by  his 
old  uncle,  Robert  Warren,  that  his  brother,  Richard, 
was  in  favor  and  statue  like  his  grandfather,  Thonnis 
Winborne.  Frum  reading  the  old  letters  of  the  family, 
anil  from  what  my  father  told  me,  and  the  pictures  of 
the  old  members  of  tlie  Winliorne  family,  his  great 
grandfather,  Henry  Winbnrue,  was  a  well  ]nT)portioned 
p-entleman,  about  .">  feet  '.»  or  10  inches  high,  with  black 
beard  and  hair,  strong  body  and  mind,  active,  energetic, 
and  determined  in  purpose.  The  pictures  of  the  older 
members  of  the  family  im])ress  me  that  he  was  no  ordi- 
narv  man.  I  regret  we  have  no  ])ortrait  to  ]iortray  the 
character  and  features  of  this  old  gentleman.  We  can 
only  find  them  iu  bis  offspring.  Of  all  the  great  trials 
of  mv  father,  the  une  that  seeuied  to  exasperate  him  the 
most  was  his  disfranchisement  during  the  Reconstruc- 
tion period,  when  the  ex-slaves  were  allowed  to  vote  for 
the  adoption  of  a  State  Constitution  and  for  all  govern- 


M\.i.  Samuel  D.u{DE^^  Winbokne.  57 

mental  officers  of  the  State,  and  lie  and  lii.s  like  disfran- 
eliised,  and  not  allowed  to  vote.  It  is  vivid  in  my  miud, 
when  the  ex-slaves  an<i  the  worse  element  of  society,  and 
the  enemies  of  Sonthern  homes,  were  allowed  to  vote 
and  fix  tlie  laws,  while  the  o\\Tiers  of  the  soil,  and  the 
true  menihers  of  Southern  homes  were  denied  a  voice. 
This  was  irorsp  Ihnu  (he  war.  It  did  more  to  encamj) 
in  the  heart  of  the  Southerner  a  dislike  for  the  North 
than  all  el.se  connected  with  the  Civil  War.  I  went  each 
tiay  to  ^lurfrecsboro  dnring  this  farce  of  voting-  to  carry 
the  news  at  night  to  my  father,  who  was  willing  to  for- 
gi\-e  all  hilt  this  outrage.  I  find  I  am  making  this  too 
long.  I  coiihl  write  ])ages  ahont  him.  IFc  was  tlio  ecmi- 
panion  of  his  children.      So  mote  it  be. 


58  The  Wixborxe  Family. 


CAROLINE  ANN  WINBORNE. 

The  flaugliter  of  Elislia  Wiiiborne  was  greatly  loved 
liy  her  brothers.  As  a  youug  lady  she  was  handsome 
and  iinieh  admired.  She  married  her  cousin,  Brittou 
Moore,  of  ^lurfreesboro,  X.  C,  the  sou  of  Allen  Moore 
and  his  wife,  Ann  Warren  Moore.  They  had  several 
children,  Arro,  Thomas,  -Tidia,  Pattie,  Lonnie  L., 
Euclid  and  Carrie,  all  of  whom  are  dead  e.xcejit  Arro 
and  Lonnie  L,  Tucde  Brittou  .Moore  died  during  the 
early  part  <<{  the  late  Civil  War.  Tlis  wife  and  several 
children  survived  him.  The  war  stripped  them  of 
much  of  their  estate.  They  saved  their  home  in  ilur- 
freesijoro.  They  were  looked  after  and  cared  for  Ijy  the 
widow's  brothers,  Samuel  and  IJoliert,  until  the  children 
were  educated  and  able  to  be  self-sustaining.  .Tulia  and 
Huclid  died  young.  Thomas  died  just  as  be  reached 
manli((od.  Pattie  and  Carrie  nnirried  in  Chowan 
County,  X.  C.,  and  were  living  in  Edenton,  X.  C,  at 
the  time  of  theii-  deatli.  EacJi  loft  cbildi'en.  Lonnie 
married  Miss  Virgil  Calvert,  of  Jackson,  X.  C,  and 
they  are  now  living  in  Edenton,  X.  C,  doing  well  and 
have  several  very  ]iromising  children.  Miss  Calvert 
was  the  grandilangliter  of  Samuel  Calvert,  of  Jackson. 
The  Calverts  can  boast  of  an  aristocratic  lineage. 
Their  family  history  carries  them  directly  back,  in  an 
uuliroken  chain,  to  Lord  Baltimore,  who  was  Sir  George 


.Mi;s.   W.  K.  WATSON. 

I 'Illy  livin;;(lilli):hlel'  ol' 

t'anilirio  A.  Moorp  nee  Winboirn-. 


Caeolixe  A.\.\  ^^'I.\B(>li^'K.  5y 

Calvert,  and  who  obtained  from  Iviiii;-  Cliarles  1,  by 
whom  be  was  Jiiucb  liked,  a  eliarter  for  MaryhiutI,  and 
wliicli  was  |)biuted  after  lii:^  death  by  liis  sou,  Cecil  Cal- 
v(>rt,  tlie  second  Lord  Baltimore. 

Arrc  marrii-d  Ki'v.  \V.  F.  Watson,  a  l>a])tist  divine, 
and  they  are  now  livinn  in  Monroe,  X.  C.  Arro  is  a 
very  aeeoni|ilisbed  and  intelleetiial  woman.  She  has  a 
weifrbty  iiody  as  well  as  a  stroii<>-  and  vijinrons  mind. 
Her  mother  iidierited  mneh  of  the  dis|iosilion  and  char- 
acter of  licr  niotlier.  Her  letters  to  her  brothers,  after 
they  left  home,  were  full  of  valnal)le  information, 
wholesome  advice,  an<l  encouragement  to  tlicm  in  their 
lite  striiaijles.  These  letters  were  the  products  of  a  clear 
and  strong  mind.  She  died  in  Kdeiiton,  X.  C.,  .Xovem- 
ber  1st,  isiis,  jn<i  seven  days  prior  to  the  deatii  of  h(>r 
brother,  Itoliei-t,  who  was  the  last  one  of  that  noble 
family  to  pass  into  eternity.  She  was  a  devout  member 
of  the  Baptist  church,  having  jvrofesscd  religion  when 
young.  She  and  lnisban<l  were  for  a  lung  time  mem- 
bers of  the  old  liuckhorn  Bajitist  ("burcli.  I-'inally  ihey 
moved  their  membership  to  the  Baptist  cliurcli  in  the 
town  of  their  residence.  Her  brothers  were,  during 
their  lives,  devote<l  to  their  sister.  Her  brother, 
Samuel,  was  her  guardian  and  receive<l  her  share  from 
her  father's  estate  from  liis  administriitor.  and  m.inaged 
it  to  her  advantage,  and  at  her  arrival  at  f\dl  age  he  i)aid 
her  every  cent  due  her.  Her  brother,  Robert  H.,  was 
tiie  administrator  of  her  husband's  estate.  Xo  sister 
ever  had  more  devoted  brothers. 

Britfon  iloore's  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  were 
of  Irish  descent.      T  rememl)er  well   the  favcn-  and   a])- 


60 


The  Winborne  Family. 


pearance  of  Eritton,  Samuel,  Albert  and  Henry  Moore. 
Tlioy  were  brotliers.  They  were  large,  tall,  handsome, 
and  splendid  looking  men.  They  wore  long  beard, 
which  they  ke])t  in  perfect  order.  Their  teeth  were 
always  white  and  ivory-looking.  ISTeat  in  their  dress  as 
a  S])artan  Knight.  They  looked  everv  inch  like  the 
"Old  Eoman."  ' 


I'll,   I!.   U.   WINIioHNK. 
OFCHliUAN  (OINTV.  N.  i. 

I'leil  Nov.  189S,  aged  Tl  years. 


Dk.  lioHKKT  TTi;.\itv  ^VI.\lsoR^'E.  61 


DR.  ROBERT  HENRY  WINBORNE. 

Xo  (•(jiiiitrv  lias  fver  furnislied  to  the  world  higher 
types  of  iiiiinhooil  than  the  •"Old  South,'*  and  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  a  most  worthy  represeutative  of  the 
best  products  of  liis  tjay.  His  respect  for  woman  was 
profound,  and  indeed  in  the  gentleness  and  graceful 
cJiarm  of  the  women  of  the  "Old  South,"  and  tiie  venera- 
tion in  wliich  they  were  held,  will  be  found  the  secret  of 
the  knightly  chivalry  and  courtly  bearing  of  its  men. 

Attractive  iu  ]iersonal  ap]iearance,  of  pleasing  man- 
ners and  an  entertaining  conversationalist,  he  easily 
won  the  esteem  and  friendshi])  of  those  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  High-toned  and  honorable  in  all  his 
dealings,  he  always  connnanded  res])ect  and  confidence. 
]]{'  was  a  great  student  and  a  man  of  extensive  learning, 
but  found  recreation  and  pleasure  in  numly  si)orts.  He 
loved  animals,  and  nature  in  all  its  f<jrms — the  forest, 
field  and  ojien  sky.  Hunting  was  his  favorite  j)astime, 
and  no  music  was  sweeter  to  him  than  the  nutny-voiced 
chorus  of  his  hounds  in  the  fox  chase.  Tie  was  a  good 
story  teller,  and  the  centre  id'  an  interesting  group  wlier- 
ever  he  found  a  congenial  (•onii)any.  Until  afflicted  by 
sorrow  at  the  death  of  his  sons,  and  ill  health,  life  had 
many  pleasures  for  him,  iiiid  he  delighted  in  making  it 
brighter  for  others.  He  was  devoted  to  Xorth  Carolina 
and  all  her  interests.      TTis  knowledge  of  her  historv  and 


62  TiiK  WixBORNE  Family. 

Irailitidiis,  ;iii<l  liis  ae'(j\iaiiitanft'  with  the  public  men  of 
his  day,  was  extensive  and  intimate. 

He  was  born  on  the  16th  (hiy  of  July,  1826,  and  from 
early  youth  his  bright  intellect  and  thirst  for  knowledge 
gave  promise  of  his  subsequent  attainments.  His  stu- 
dious habits,  and  scholarly  tastes  were  encouraged  not 
only  by  his  mother  and  brother,  but  by  his  nncle,  Robert 
Warren,  with  whom  they  resided  after  his  father's 
death,  and  they  gave  him  excellent  educational  advan- 
tages. In  his  youth  he  attended  Bnckhorn  Academy,  of 
which  Prof.  -lohn  Kemberly  was  then  principal,  and 
between  him  and  his  teacher  was  formed  a  warm  and 
lasting  friendshiii.  In  1.S43  he  matriculated  in  the 
T'niversity  of  North  Carolina,  gradnating  with  distinc- 
tion in  June,  1S47,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Among 
his  classmates  were  (Senator)  M.  W.  Ransom,  (Sena- 
tor) John  Pool,  and  (General)  T.  J.  Pettigrew,  and 
others,  wdio  snbseqnently  became  distinguished,  but  he 
was  excelled  in  scludarship  only  by  Messrs.  Pettigrew 
and  Ranseni.  The  latter,  in  referring  to  his  college 
class,  of  Avhich  he  was  always  proud,  has  often  stated 
that  the  contest  betwcn  himself  and  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  for  the  second  honor,  was  very  close.  His  schol- 
arship, as  well  as  the  esteem  in  \vhich  he  was  held,  is 
attested  by  the  fact  that  he  was  the  society  valedictorian 
of  his  class  in  the  Philanthropic  Society,  to  which  he 
belonged.  His  loyalty  and  devotion  to  his  alma  mater 
continued  through  life,  and  the  alumni  reunions  in  1SS9 
and  1S95,  which  he  attended,  were  to  him  occasions  of 
the  keenest  ]deasure.  After  leaving  the  University  he 
taught  school  for  two  or  three  years  in  Orange  Hill, 


l;l(  IIAUI)  WlMliiKNK. 
NOI:|-MI,K,  VA. 

Soil  ol  I'r.  K.  11.  WiiiboriKv 


De.    lioBEKT     IIkNKY    WlMiOKXE.  63 

Floridii,  and  thereafter  for  about  the  same  period  in 
Tarboro,  X.  C.  Among  his  ]nipils  at  the  latter  place 
were  the  late  Judge  Fred  Phillips  and  Dr.  il.  B.  Pitt, 
now  of  Edgecombe  Countv.  \Vhih>  at  Tarboro  au  inti- 
mate frieudsiiip  was  I'ormcd  JK^tweeii  liiiii  and  the  late 
Judge  Howard,  which  continued  through  life.  In  the 
fall  of  185;?  he  entered  tlie  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  Virginia,  wlicre  he  remained  one  year, 
lie  continued  iiis  medical  studies  at  Jefferson  Medical 
College,  Philadelphia,  where  he  graduated  in  the  sum- 
mer of  185.").  Shortly  after  his  graduation  be  located 
in  Chowan  County,  near  Holly's  Wharf,  for  the  prac- 
tice of  his  ]n-ofessiou,  and  hei-e  he  continued  to  reside 
until  liis  death,  on  Xoveudier  7,  ISDS.  He  ranked  high 
iu  ills  profession  and  ])ractice<l  with  much  skill  and  suc- 
cess. For  years  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  Xorth 
Carolina  Jledical  Society  and  was  among  its  first  Presi- 
dents. It  has  l>een  the  good  fortime  of  but  few  men  to 
be  more  sincerely  loved  by  his  neighbors  than  Avas  Dr. 
Winborne.  Tan  ilcClareu,  in  his  beautiful  story,  "Be- 
side tiie  Bonnie  Brier  Bush,"  says  of  the  old  doctor  of 
Driiiiilochty,  "he  has  served  this  glen  with  a  devotion 
that  luis  known  no  reserve,  and  a  kindliness  that  never 
failed."  The  same  nuiy  be  justly  said  of  this  scholarly 
and  skilled  jiiiysician,  whose  response  to  the  appeals  of 
suffering  and  affliction  was  measured  by  no  sordid  sel- 
fishness. In  s\inshinc  and  storm,  cold  or  heat,  night  or 
day,  whatever  the  discomfort  to  liimself,  when  disease 
or  suffering  called,  he  went,  and  often  without  reward 
or  the  ho])e  of  reward.  We  love  to  tell  in  song  and 
storv  of  the  heroic  deeds  of  those  who  have  faced  shot 


64  The  Winboene  Family. 

and  shell  with  luiilauiited  lieart;  but  no  man  in  the 
,  trenches  of  Sebastopol  or  on  the  heights  of  Gettysbtirg 
bore  himself  with  more  knightly  coitrage  than  did  this 
good  niau  in  battle  with  Imman  suffering.  Upon  his 
tomb  there  cotild  surely  l)e  no  more  appropriate  inscrip- 
tion than  the  old  and  consecrated  saying,  "Greater  love 
hath  no  man  than  this,  that  a  man  lay  down  his  life  for 
his  friends." 

Aside  from  his  professional  attainments,  Dr.  Win- 
borne  was  an  exemplary  citizen,  and  took  a  deep  interest 
in  jiublic  affairs.  In  1805  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  his  State  from  Clmwan 
County,  and  rendered  valmible  services  to  his  State  in 
that  body.  On  several  occasions  since  the  war  he  was 
urged  to  become  a  candidate  for  Congress  from  his  dis- 
trict, but  he  preferred  to  devote  his  life  to  the  noble  pro- 
fession which  he  loved  and  adorned. 

On  April  10,  1^62,  lie  was  married  to  Miss  Annie  Fe- 
licia Parker,  whose  mother  was.  a  Miss  Skinner  and  the 
aunt  of  Hon.  Thomas  C  Skinner,  of  Hertford,  and 
Hon.  Harry  Skinner,  of  (!reeuville.  Their  children 
were  as  follows: 

Martha  Warren,  liorn  ]\Iarch  27,  ISfi;!,  and  now  liv- 
ing at  the  old  home  of  her  father. 

Robert  Warren,  born  January  10,  180.5,  and  died  of 
heart  disease  on  October  11,  1S90.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  young  physician  of  gTeat  promise. 

Peter  Parker,  born  June  2.5,  1867,  and  died  June  3, 
1892.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  just  completed 
his  junior  year  at  the  University  of  Xorth  Carolina, 
where  he  had  maintained  an  exceptionally  high  grade  of 


U  II.J.IAM  11.  »\  1.\Iiii|;m„ 

(  HOHAX  COINTV,  .N.  i  . 

r^on  of  Dr.  R.  II.  Wiiibonie. 


Dr.  Robert  IIexry  Winborxe.  65 

scholarship,  and  liis  death  was  doubtless  attributable  ti. 
his  excessive  work  as  a  studeut. 

Elizabeth  Skinuer,  born  February  22,  ItsTO,  died  De- 
cember 10,  1872. 

Kieliard,  born  February-  (j,  1873,  and  now  residing 
in  Norfolk,  \'a.,  where  he  is  meeting  with  much  success 
in  business.  On  June  23,  1903,  he  was  married  to 
-Margaret  Cofield  Warren,  of  Edeuton,  X.  C,  a  member 
i)f  tlie  distinguished  Warren  family  of  that  county,  and 
tiiey  now  have  one  cliild,  Margaret  Warren,  born  April 
12,  I'JOo. 

William  ITutching-s,  born  Octolxjr  14,  187o,  and  now 
residing  at  the  old  home,  lie  was  married  on  Decem- 
ber 28,  1!)(I4,  to  Annie  T.  Elliott,  of  ("howan  County, 
X.  ('.,  and  resides  at  tlie  homestead  of  his  father.  He 
is  a  leading  citizen  in  his  county  and  tlie  present  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Education  in  his  coimty. 

Mary  Skinner,  lx>rii  ilarcli  10,  1878,  and  now  teach- 
ing in  Beaufort,  X.  C. 

doim  Wallace,  born  July  12,  1884,  and  now  a  stu- 
dent in  the  senior  class  at  the  University  of  Xorth 
Carolina. 

Tlie  death  of  his  sons  was  a  great  shock  to  Dr.  Win- 
borne,  and  not  only  saddened  his  life,  but  his  health 
soon  began  to  fail.  For  the  last  two  or  three  years  of 
his  life  he  was  a  great  sufferer  from  valvular  insuffi- 
ciency of  the  heart,  and  tliis  was  the  ultimate  cause  of 
his  death.  His  brother,  Sam,  was  the  guardian  of  his 
estate  when  he  was  a  minor. 


66  The  Winborne  [Family. 

"Jime  16th,  1905. 
Hon.  B.  B.  Wisburne^  Murj'vecshoro,  N.  C. 

De.vr  Wixborne: — Your  letter  of  the  10th  came  in 
my  absence.  Ynuv  nncle,  i)r.  11.  11.  Winbonie,  did  rep- 
resent Chowau  ( 'oiinty  in  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1865,  caHed  to  rehabilitate  the  State.  He  was  a 
MTV  itscfnl  and  intlnential  nicndier  there,  as  yon  will 
see  by  the  records  of  that  body.  According  to  my 
present  recollection  he  never  rejn-eseuted  the  county  in 
ihc  l('i;islatur('.  lie  was  always,  however,  a  Icailing  fac- 
Inf  ill  the  political  and  business  affairs  of  onr  connty, 
and  I  have  rarely  ever  known  a  more  thoronghly  intelli- 
gent and  conscientious  leader  i>f  pul)lic  thought.  The 
county  luis  sntl'cn'd  greatly  by  his  death.  We  very 
greatly  need  leaders  of  his  stamp.  If  1  were  called 
upon  to  name  Dr.  AVinliorne's  ]iredominant  characteris- 
tic, I  would  nieution  open,  honest  candor  and  disgust 
and  contempt  f<ir  anything  which  savors  of  cant  or 
hypocrisy.  [  never  knew  a  man  who  so  thoronghly  hated 
cunning  and  meanness  in  ]iolitics,  religion  or  business. 

T  shall  be  delighted  to  aid  you  further  in  any  investi- 
gation whicli  you  <]esire  to  make  into  the  life  of  one  of 
my  best  friends,  whom  I  have  always  earnestly  admired 
and  loved. 

Yonrs  sincerely,  W.  D.  Pruden. 

Die— W.  D.  P." 


.loIlN    »  .\l,l,.\rK   W  INIiultNlv. 
C'HUWAN  COirSTY,  N.  C. 

Son  of  I>r.  I!.  II.  WInboriie. 


A.x.ME  Fei^icia  Pakkku.  67 


ANNIE  FELICIA  PARKER. 

'i'lic  wife  <if  KiilHTt  Ik'iirv  \Viiil)uriK'  (Ic-sei'iided  from 
the  oldest  and  most  [iromiiieiit  families  of  tlie  Albemarle 
section.  Her  iiiateriial  i;raii<lfailier  was  llciirv  Skin- 
ner, of  I'ei'ciuiiiians  Connl.v,  X.  ('..  wlio  was  a  direct 
descendant  from  Kicliard  Skinner,  of  that  cotuity,  wlio 
was  one  (jf  the  jurors  in  the  famous  suit  of  l\'//(.  Wii- 
liuiiis  r.  Will.  Hull.  It  was  an  action  of  (Iclhiuc  for  a 
feather  bed,  1  pair  hiankets  and  1  y/c/'/c.  tried  Ajjril  11, 
1704.  (("ol.  Kec,  Vol.  1.  ]..  (WIS.)  He  was  after- 
wards a  mendier  of  tlie  Colonial  ilou.se  of  Assembly 
from  his  county  in  1  7-'! I-17:*>'>.  His  son,  Kicliard,  was 
sheritf  of  the  county  in  17^!^.  His  son,  .loiin,  was  also 
])rominent  in  tlie  State  bolli  iiefore  and  after  tiie  war  of 
177(i,  was  a  member  of  tlie  House  of  Assembly  from 
17(i!l  to  1771.  He  was  corporal  in  Captain  Katon's 
Company  in  the  Continental  army.  Kidisted  in  .May, 
1771),  aiid  was  honorably  discliarn'cd  Xovendier  1,  177>^. 
to  serve  as  a  civil  officer.  His  brother,  Thomas,  was 
also  in  the  Continental  army,  in  ('apt.  Blount's  Com- 
])any,  from  Jnly  20.  177^,  until  the  clo.se  of  the  war. 
William,  another  .son.  was  a  member  of  the  Halifax  (^on- 
aress,  .Vpril  4th.  177(),  and  was  by  that  body  ai)])ointed 
Lieutenant  in  the  Continental  army,  where  he  served 
with  gallantry. 

Jonathan  Skinner,  another  of  the  family,  was  also  a 


68  The  Wixhokxk  Family. 

j>r<iniiii('ut  man  in  the  State  from  the  East.  He  served 
in  the  lI<in..H'  ivmn  177'.'  In  17S5,  except  oue  session,  and 
again  in  the  Senate  from  17U0  to  1793. 

William  Skinner  married  Miss  Jeneslia  Bond,  of 
C'liiiwan  C'linnty,  and  their  son,  Henrv  vSkinner,  married 
^liss  Sarali  Tioiierts.  Henry  was  a  member  of  the  Hottse 
from  Chowan  ("onnty  from  1S13  to  181.5,  and  in  the 
Senate  in  lM(i.  Their  daughter,  Elizabeth  B.  Skinner, 
marrieil  Peter  Parker,  of  Chowan  Cunnty,  and  their 
daughter,  Aimie  Felicia,  married  Robert  Henry  Win- 
borne. 

.Mrs.  Annie  F.  Winborne's  ance.stry  on  her  paternal 
side  is  equally  as  distinguished.  Her  father,  Peter 
Parker,  was  the  .son  of  Elisha  Parker  and  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth ^STorfleet,  of  Chowan  Coimty.  Elisha  Parker's  pa- 
rents were  Peter  Parker,  Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Wal- 
]ac<^,  of  Chowan,  and  Mary  Wallace  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Wallace,  of  Albemarle.  The  old  John  Wallace 
home  was  in  Chowan  Comity,  abotit  oue  mile  from  the 
Chowan  River,  at  Holly's  Wharf.  Annie  Felicia's 
mother,  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  Peter  Parker,  in 
1839,  married  Jonathan  White,  in  ISl-fi,  by  whom  she 
had  several  children.  Her  father-in-law  liecame  Annie's 
guardian,  and  after  her  marriage  a  suit  was  entered 
against  her  guardian  for  a  proper  .settlement.  The  re- 
sult of  the  suit  never  demonstrated  to  the  plaintiffs  that 
she  had  been  squarely  dealt  with  by  her  guardian.  Win- 
hornc  r.  White.  69  N".  C,  253. 

John  Wallace  (sometimes  we  find  it  incorrectly  spelt, 
John  Wallis),  was  a  large  land  owner  and  a  man  of 
uuich  wealth  and  influence.      He  was  a  Scotchman.      A 


A.VMK  Fki.ria  Pakkkk.  69 

man  of  strong  character,  of  great  exeoitive  ability,  and 
a  sueccssfiil  business  man.  He  flourished  in  the  begin- 
ning and  the  first  quarter  of  tlie  ISfli  century,  and  was 
loyal  to  his  government. 

The  oldest  Jolm  Wallace  (Wallice)  is  a  i)arty  to  an 
agreement,  in  KiC-a,  between  Edward  Earle,  of  Claren- 
don, Lord  Iligii  Chancellor  of  England,  (ieorge,  Duke 
of  Albemarle,  and  others.  (Col.  Kec,  Vol.  I,  p.  7(i.) 
lie  also  served  as  a  juror  in  February,  Ui'Xi,  (Col.  Rec, 
Vol.  1,  J).  388.)  ifis  brotlier,  Robert  Wallace  (Wallis) 
was  a  member  of  the  Court.  (Vol.  1,  p.  -t:5."). )  Thomas 
Wallace  (Wallis),  of  Chowan,  died  about  IT.jO,  and  left 
a  will,  now  of  record  in  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State 
in  Raleigh.  lie  mentions  his  wife,  E^lizabeth,  his  sons, 
\\  illiam,  Johnothan,  and  John,  an<l  his  daughters,  Eliz- 
abeth, Judeth,  Mary,  and  Susannah.  Thomas  was  a 
brother  of  John,  the  ancestor  of  Annie  Felicia.  Wills 
were  recorded  in  Raleigh  in  office  of  Secretary  of  Stale 
up  to  about  1760. 

Richard  Winborne,  son  of  R.  11.  Wiuborne  and  wife, 
Annie  F.,  married  Miss  ^rargarcl  C.  Warren,  June  2:], 
1!)0;3,  who.se  paternal  ancestry  runs  to  Thomas  1).  War- 
ren, of  Chowan  County,  thence  back  to  the  Warrens  of 
Williamsburg,  Va.,  to  Gen.  Samuel  Warren,  of  the  war 
of  1776-82.  They  have  one  child,  ^largaret  Warren 
Winborne.  Samuel  Warren,  the  grandfather  of  Martha 
Winborne,  wife  of  Elislia  Winborne,  a  member  of  same 
family.  Wm.  TT.  Winborn(>.  sim  of  R.  H.  Winborne 
and  wife,  married  December  28,  1!)04,  ]\riss  Annie  P. 
Elliott,  whose  i)arents  rank  with  old  Chowan's  best 
])eo])Ie.      They  live  with  his  mother.      Annie  F.,  lives  at 


70  The  Wi.\u(jknk  Family. 

tlu'  (lid  ancc\stral  Ikulk — tlic  Ikiuic  <it'  lier  nld  ancestor, 
.luhu  Wallace.  The  old  iiKimtr  Imuse  lias  been  added  to 
and  luudernized.  It  is  now  an  ideal-  conntry  home, 
within  one  mile  of  the  banks  of  the  majestic  Chowan 
Kiver,  at  a  point  where  the  distance  across  the  river  is 
between  four  and  five  miles.  Tt  is  on  or  near  the  site  of 
an  old  Indian  villai;e  or  eitv.  ller  mother  was  the  sis- 
ter of  James  Costen  Skinner,  the  father  of  Hons. 
Thomas  Gregory  Skinner  and  ITarry  Skinner,  both  ex- 
members  of  ( 'onii'ress,  and  the  latter  is  now  United 
States  District  Attorney  for  the  Eastern  District  of 
jSTorth  Carolina.  Her  two  daniihters  and  yonngest  son, 
John  Wallace,  live  with  her.  Richard  is  in  business  in 
Norfolk,  Va. 


lUCII  Al:li  W  IMioKNK. 
Vimiii:esl  son  of  Kll.-ha  Wliiboriu-. 
Died  ill  ISti-i  111  LatiraDKe.  Teuii..  u^ej  3:1. 


Richard  Winborne.  71 


RICHARD  WINBORNE. 

The  youngest  of  the  ehiklren,  like  his  oldest  brother, 
Mica  jail,  impelled  bv  a  noble  desire  and  ambition  to 
seek  his  fortune  in  a  strange  land  among  strange  people, 
in  November,  1S48,  in  his  twenty-tirst  year,  buoyant 
witli  hope,  left  the  homo  i)f  his  mother,  to  whom  he  was 
so  strongly  and  hivingly  attached,  and  made  his  way  to 
ilacon,  Fayette  Cuinity,  Tennessee,  reaching  there  after 
a  journey  of  over  live  weeks.  His  letters  to  his  mother, 
after  reaching  Tennessee,  are  pathetic  and  touching. 
They  portray  the  feeling  and  unlimited  devotion  of  son 
for  mother,  but  at  the  same  time  showed  phiek  and  de- 
termination, traits  of  character  so  strongly  develojjcd  in 
the  nattires  of  his  brothers.  He  remained  Init  a  short 
time  at  JIacon,  when  he  moved  to  LaGrauge,  in  the 
same  State,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days. 
He  met  with  success  in  business.  In  1S57  he  mar- 
ried Ifi.ss  .Maggie  Howard,  of  LaGrange,  a  lady  of 
considerable  literary  acc(im])lishments  and  refinement. 
T  have  a  inuuber  of  her  letters  written  to  his  mother. 
They  had  two  children,  Rolx>rt  and  Lillie.  Fncle  Rich- 
ard died  in  September,  1S(:'>2,  aged  33  years.  His  wife's 
letter  to  his  mother,  conveying  the  sad  tidings  of  his 
death,  and  of  her  heart  sufferings  in  her  loneliness,  was 
a  sublime  expression  of  heart  and  head.  The  war  swept 
away  most  of  their  estate.     IHs  wife  and  two  children 


72  The  Winbobke  Family. 

survived  liini.  .Mr.  W.  1'.  Lipscomb,  LaGrauge,  Tenn., 
wild  married  his  wife's  sister,  in  a  letter  to  me,  dated 
-Iniie  S,  1905,  informs  me  tliat  Iloljert  died  soon  after 
tiie  death  of  liis  fathcn-.  TIk^  widow  re-married  and  had 
two  cliiklren  by  lier  seemid  marriajie.  She  died  June 
16,  1S7S.  After  the  re-marriai;i"  nf  her  mother,  Lillie 
lived  with  her  aunt,  l\[rs.  TTerndoii.  In  October,  1878, 
Lillie,  while  fleeing,  witli  lier  auiils,  Mrs.  Herndon  and 
Mrs.  Lipscomb,  from  llie  plague  nf  yenow  fever,  which 
was  then  throwing  its  dark  shadows  over  sontlnvestern 
Tennessee,  contracted  the  fever  irom  which  she  was  try- 
ing to  escape,  and  died  in  October  of  that  year  in  Win- 
chester, of  her  native  State. 

Richard  met  with  success  in  business  and  won  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  his  fellowmen  in  his  new-made 
home.  He  was  reared  to  work  on  the  farm,  and  at  the 
same  time  to  feel  the  importance  of  an  honorable,  dig- 
nified and  chivali-ous  bearing.  It  was  but  little  trouble 
to  him  to  succeed  and  make  friends.  His  brother,  Sam, 
in  a  letter  to  his  brother,  Robert,  of  ilarcli  26,  1848, 
speaks  of  him  as  follows:  "Dick  is  ]iloug-liiug  every  day 
with  me,  and  rides,  at  leisure  times,  as  if  he  was  Avorth 
thousands  of  dollars,  and  you  will  find  him  the  finest 
looking  man  of  all  of  us  when  von  see  him  again."'  Rich- 
ard's  letters  to  his  mother,  brothers  and  sisters,  after  he 
went  West,  show  the  strong  ties  of  love  that  existed  be- 
tween them  and  bound  them  together  by  imperishable 
devotion.  He,  Sam  and  Caroline,  had  black  hair,  while 
Mike  and  Robert  had  light  colored  hair. 

His  brother,  Samuel  C,  was  his  guardian  and  re- 
ceived his  i^art  of  his  father's  estate  from  the  adminis- 


Iiicii  Aiiii  Win  iKiiiM-;. 


73 


tratnr,  Kdlx-rt  Warri'ii,  and  iiiaiiaiictl  it  (hiring  liis  uii- 
noritv.  Wlicn  lie  arrived  al  Iffjal  ago  iiis  ijiiardian  set- 
tled witli  iiiiii  ill  full.  Aud  fruiu  tinn-  to  tiiiic  liis 
l)nitl)er,  Haimicl,  advanced  to  him  the  legaov  left  him 
in  his  rn-!e  !{<ihert  Warren's  will,  ixdore  its  matnrity, 
;iiid  further  siinis  in  additi"  ii,  to  eiialilc  hini  to  begin  the 
hatfle  of  life. 

.\ftcr  the  death,  in  l^T^*^,  of  his  nioflier.  the  antlior  of 
lliis  skeleli  (|iialitied.  in  .\i>ril.  1X7!»,  as  administrator  of 
his  I'nele  Kiehanl  Winhorne.  and  settled  with  his 
brother,  Samnel,  which  settlement  showed  that  the  latter 
hail  overjiaid  the  amounts  due  his  hrother,  Richard. 
(See  tile  records  in  Hertford  ("oiinty). 

Richard  Winhorne  was  a  spleiiditl  looking  gentleman 
wiien  I  last  saw  liini  in  IStil.  during  his  last  visit  home. 
I  learn  from  one  of  his  letters  to  his  brother.  Roliert, 
tliat  he  joined  tlie  Biickhoni  Ba]itist  ('iiiirch  in  l.s42. 


10 


The  Winboene  Family. 


ROBERT  WARREN. 

No  history  of  Elisha  Winbonie's  family  would  be 
fomplete  without  the  name  and  character  of  Robert  War- 
ren. After  I  he  dcatli  of  his  hrother-in-law,  he  became 
the  loving  head  of  that  family,  whom  he  took  from  their 
old  home  on  the  east  side  of  Potecasi  Creek,  on  the  farm 
lately  known  as  the  Joseph  Newsom  farm,  to  his  delight- 
ful home,  "Cedar  Hill,"  in  ilaimcy's  Xeck,  the  north- 
eastern ])art  of  Hertford  County,  when  he  made  them. by 
his  kindness,  reverence  and  respect  the  devotion  of  a 
briither  and  an  uncle,  lie  was  a  well-to-do  old  bachelor, 
who  lived  on  his  "Cedar  Hill  Farm,"  and  his  manners 
and  style  of  living  savored  of  the  old  Colonial  gentleman, 
lie  was  a  gentleman  in  the  truest  sense.  Gentle,  kind 
and  atrectionate  in  liis  dis])osition  ;  strong  in  his  attach- 
uiculs;  dignihed  and  courtly  in  manner;  hrm  and  jwsi- 
ti\-e  iu  character.  He  was  passionately  fond  of  the  sporr 
nf  fox  and  deer  hunting,  and  always  kept  his  well  trained 
])ack  of  houn<ls,  which  he  greatly  valuecl.  He  clung  to 
the  old  style  of  dress,  that  so  jieculiarly  nuirked  the  old, 
well-dressed  Colonial  gentleman.  His  home  was  well 
known  as  "Cedar  Hill.""  and  it  is  to-day  a  beautiful  old 
country  home.  He  was  devoted  to  his  sisters  and  his  sis- 
ter ilartha's  children.  The  letters  written  to  him  by  his 
Winhorne  nephews  when  fr<iui  lionie  (  a  number  of  which 
1  have)  show  their  wonderful  <lcvotion  to  Idiii  and  ilis- 


UllHKin'  WAUUEX,  Ksy., 

nK  lIEIETroltl*  40rNT^  .  N.  r. 

Tin-  plillarilhrupic  Ijrutlier  of  .MuKlin  Wiiiboim.-. 
Ihe  widow  of  Kll.sha  Wluborne. 
He  tiled  In  ISJti. 


Robert  WAiiiiKN.  75 

close  tlie  lofty  character  of  lliiri  grand  niau,  this  de- 
voted brother,  and  this  affectionate  and  big-hearted 
niicle. 

He  died  ill  .Tannary,  ls4(!,  and  left  a  will,  of  whicli 
I  lie  fill  lowing  is  a  copy: 

ROBERT    WARRENS    WILL. 

■"I,  Robert  Warren,  of  the  connty  of  Hertford  and 
Stale  of  North  Candina,  being  of  sound  mind  and  mem- 
ory, idit  considering  the  nncertainty  of  my  carthl,v  ex- 
istence, do  make  and  declare  this  my  last  will  and  testa- 
ment, in  manner  and  form  foUowing;  that  is  to  say: 

First.  I  lend  to  my  sister,  iiargaret  R.  Warren,  the 
ii]il)er  rouiii  in  the  south  end  id"  my  dwudling  during  her 
natural  life. 

Scroiiil.  I  leave  the  whole  of  my  estate,  that  is,  my 
huKJs,  iuiduding  my  dwelling,  improvements,  etc.  Three 
Negroes,  viz.:  Pompey,  t'haney  and  Closes;  my  stock  of 
all  kinds,  farming  utensils,  houstdiold  and  kitchen  furni- 
ture to  renuiin  and  be  kept  together  in  the  care  of  my 
IK  pbcw,  Saimu'l  D.  \\'inborne,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of 
mv  sister,  Martha  D.  Winborne,  during  her  natural  life, 
and  at  her  death  or  marriage  1  give  and  l)et]ueath  >mto 
my  ne]iluw,  Samuel  1).  Wiubfjrne,  all  my  estate  as  above 
named  by  his  jiaying  to  my  nejjhew,  Richard  Winborne, 
the  sum  of  Five  Hundred  Dollars,  to  him  and  his  heirs 
forever. 

And,  lastly,  1  do  hereby  constitute"  and  a])point  my 
ne])hew,  Samuel  T).  Winborne,  and  my  friend,  Jet  R. 
Darden,  my  lawful  executors  to  all  intent*  and  purposes, 
to  execute  this  my  last  will  and  testament  according  to 


76  The  Winborne  Family. 

till'  true-  intent  ;unl  nu-anini;'  of  the  same  and  every  part 
and  elanse  thereof,  lierebv  rcvokinji'  and  declaring  ut- 
terly \-oi(l  all  other  wills  and  testaments  by  me  hereto- 
fore made.  In  witness  whereof  I,  the  said  Robert  War- 
ren, do  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal,  the  6th  day  of 
Febrnary,  A.  D.  ISU. 

RoBKRT  Wabeen.      [Seal.] 

Signed,  sealed,  published  and  decdared  by  the  said 
Robert  Warren  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament,  in  the 
presence  of  us,  who,  at  his  request  and  in  bis  presence, 
do  subseriV)e  our  names  as  witnesses  thereto. 

T.  D.  Vai^n, 
Sam'l  a.  Dahden, 
Elias  Britt. 

State  of  Xoirni  Cakolix.v — Hertford  County. 

Court  of  Pleas  and  Quarter  Sessions, 
February  Term,  1.S46. 

Tlie  within  last  Will  and  Testament  of  Robert  War- 
ren, deceased,  was  exliibited  in  o])en  Court  at  this  term 
f(ir  ])r()l)ate  and  the  due  executiim  of  the  same  proved  by 
tlic  oath  of  Samuel  A.  Darden,  one  of  the  subscribing 
witnesses  thereto  and  ordered  to  be  recorded. 

At  the  same  time  Samuel  1),  Winlmrne,  one  of  the 
executors  therein  appointed,  a])|)eared  in  open  Court 
and  was  duly  qualified  as  such,  and  prayed  and  obtained 
an  order  for  Letters  Testamentary  thereon. 

Test:  L.']\1.  Cowper.  Clerk." 

Roliert  Warren  was  the  administrator  of  Elisha  Win- 
borne  and  sold  tlie  pro]ierty  of  the  estate  in  December, 


Robert  Wakuen.  77 

1829.  After  liis  death  "Cedai-  Hill"'  remained  as  the 
liome  of  the  Winhonie  familv,  and  to-day  is  the  home  of 
l{ol)ert  Warren"-;  i;rand  ncjilicw.  Sanuiel  Pretlow  Win- 
borne. 

While  nearly  sixty  year^  have  rolled  away  since  his 
death,  yet  he  lives  in  the  hearts  of  his  grand  nephews 
and  nieces,  like  he  did  with  their  ancestors,  and  for 
wliom  they  clierish  a  feelinj;  of  devotion  unparalleled. 
The  [)Coi)le  with  whom  lie  lived  .spoke  of  him  as  ''one  of 
tlio  noblemen." 

My  father  alone  <|ualified  as  his  executor  and  settled 
the  estate. 


The  Winborne  Family. 


MRS.  MARY  HARE  WINBORNE. 

The  wife  of  Samuel  Darden  Winborne  was  a  Miss 
Pretlow,  of  Soutliampton  County,  Virginia.  Her  an- 
cestors were  Quakers,  and  sincere  and  pious  people,  true 
to  their  sect.  Xo  family  in  the  Old  Dominion  stood 
better  than  the  PretloAvs.  Tlie  old  records  of  the  family 
reveal  that  Thomas  Pretlow  and  his  wife,  Rebecca, 
landed  on  o\<\  \'irginia  s<iil  fmm  Kugland  about  the  year 
1632,  about  ten  years  after  the  first  Powhatan  massacre. 
The  Pretlows  are  of  Norman  origin,  and  the  name  was 
originally  Predlow,  so  it  is  lianded  do-mi  to  us  from  the 
(lid  mendiers  of  the  family.  Acc(>rding  to  the  tradition 
of  the  family,  the  male  I'rcdhiws  of  Normandy  were  sol- 
diers in  the  Norman  army,  iind  fought  under  William 
the  ■  Conqueror  in  the  battle  nf  Hastings,  and  that  the 
mother  of  the  Pretlows  of  England,  as  they  were  known 
after  the  Conquest,  was  a  member  of  the  royal  family  of 
William.  This  is  going  back  to  remote  days,  but  they 
are  family  traditions,  and  it  i>  jn-oper  to  transmit  them 
to  (inr  posterity.  Pietnrning  to  the  genealogy  of  the 
family  as  an  American  product,  we  learn  that  Thomas 
Pretlow  and  his  wife,  Relxicca,  had  by  their  marriage 
two  sons,  Joseph  and  Tlmmas,  and  one  daughter,  Char- 
lotte. 

The  latter  married  a  Mr.  Harrison,  who  lived  on 
James  River  in  Virginia.      I  can  not  trace  the  history 


Mk«    MAUV   II.  WlMliiKNE  net-  I'KKTI.oW. 

Wife  of  Major  S.  D.  WInborne. 

Uied  Augiisi  24.  1900.  aged  72  year?  and  7  inunllis. 


^fus.  ^[akv  IIakk  WixnoRXE.  79 

f>f  this  iiiari'iage.  1  will  relate  an  iiifideut,  however, 
that  iiiav  help  some  one  else  who  may  have  more  time 
ami  liettcr  facilities  than  I,  to  search  into  it.s  history. 

In  the  snmnier  of  ISTs  or  isT'-',  while  1  was  a  young 
lawyer,  living  in  Winton.  X.  C.,  I  was  at  Old  Point 
Comfort,  ^'a.,  for  a  few  days.  While  there  I  met  a  re- 
fined and  well  edneated  gentleman  of  abont  5.5  or  60 
years  old,  of  the  name  of  Harrison,  who  was  spending 
the  summer  there  with  his  family,  from  Cincinnati, 
(^hio.  lie  inqnired  of  me  one  day  where  I  was  from. 
In  the  conversation  I  sjjoke  of  my  mother  being  a  iliss 
Pretlow,  of  Sontham])ton  County,  Va.  lie  at  once  be- 
came very  nuicli  interested  in  onr  conversation  and  asso- 
ciations while  I  remaineil  at  Old  Point.  lie  stated  that 
one  of  his  ancestors  was  a  ^liss  Pretlow,  from  that  same 
county.  I  met  his  wife  and  daughter  and  found  them 
very  interesting.  1  left  Old  Point  and  went  to  Xew 
York.  He  learned  where  I  was  going  and  ]»resented  me 
with  a  ticket  for  the  tri]). 

There  are  two  branches  of  the  Pretlow  family  in  \'ir- 
ginia.  ily  molher's  family  descended  from  Jose])li, 
and  the  other  family  <lescended  from  Thomas,  Jr.  My 
mother's  grandfather  was  Jose])h  Pretlow,  who  married 
Miss  Ann  Scott,  of  Southampton  County,  Va.  They 
had  only  one  child,  Joseph.  Tie  married  Miss  ^lary 
Hare.  January  8,  ISIS,  the  daughter  of  Bryan  Hare,  of 
Xansemond  Cotnity,  Va.  Bryan  Hare  married  iliss 
Sarah  Shc])herd,  of  Xansemond  County,  the  sister  of 
Solomon  Shepherd,  of  that  county. 

Joseph  Pretlow  and  his  wife,  ^fary  Hare,  were  the 
l)arents  of  my  mother,  ^fary  Hare  Winborne.  nrr  Pret- 


so  The  Winborne  Family. 

|(i\v.  Their  children  were:  Zelinda  Ann,  born  July  4, 
IS  111.  Tiobert  Scott,  born  Xyvil  7,  1S21.  Joseph,  born 
December  1,  1822,  and  died  iu  1862,  nmnarried.  John, 
born  April  12,  1825,  and  died  December  19,  1901.  He 
mai'ricd  the  accomplished  Miss  Deborah  Kicks,  of  Rich- 
mond. Va.  Thev  had  no  cliild.  Tiie  widow  still  sur- 
vives, and  lives  at  his  old  homestead,  about  five  miles 
from  Franldin,  Va.  Mary  Hare,  born  January  30, 
1828.  Sarah  C,  born  September  18,  1832.  Elizabeth 
A.,  born  February  12.  is;!.-),  and  died  at  my  father's 
July  10,  18(i.".,  from  typhoid  fever.  She  was  a  very 
beautiful  and  attractive  woman,  and  had  many  ad- 
mirers. 

My  father  qualified  in  Southampton  County,  Va.,  on 
the  estate  of  my  motlier's  brother,  Joseph,  and  in  the 
winter  of  sixty-three  and  fcmr  carried  me  to  the  late 
home  of  my  uncle  and  left  me  thei-e  with  the  overseer  to 
liiok  after  matters  and  report  to  him  when  he  would  come 
up.  I  rememlier  some  of  my  experiences  while  there. 
Mv  uncle  was  a  Quaker  and  did  not  own  slaves,  but  he 
had  four  or  five  negro  l)oys  "Ixnnid  to  him,"  and  they 
renuuned  after  his  death  until  the  end  of  the  war  and 
the  estate  was  closed  u]).  These  boys  occupied  a  house 
in  the  corner  of  the  yard,  and  the  potato  cellar  was  under 
that  JKiuse.  T  would  often  go  over  to  this  house  at  night 
and  the  boys  would  roast  ])otatoes  for  me,  and  pick  the 
banjo  and  dance  for  my  amusement.  It  would  amuse 
mv  father  very  nnieli  wIkmi  he  would  come  up  and  listen 
to  my  description  of  the  dances.  Zuni  and  Ivor  stations, 
on  "N".  and  W.  Railroad,  were  the  only  nearby  townis. 
That  is  where  T  went  to  buy  a  little  candy. 


Mks.  Mahy  IIare  Wixboene.  81 

ilr.s.  Aim  .Scott  I'lX'liuw,  widuw  of  Joseph,  was  stay- 
ing witli  Ikm-  l)rotlic'r,  James  Scott,  a  wealtliy  old  bache- 
lor, who  lived  in  Southampton  County,  and  had  iier 
little  granddauffhter,  Sarah  V.  Pretlow,  with  her,  when, 
on  the  night  of  Deeendier  14,  l.s-iO,  about  t)  o'clock,  one 
.Matthew  Drake,  a  white  man  living  in  the  neighborhood, 
murdered  .Mr.  Scott  at  the  gate  of  his  front  yard,  and 
llien  rail  into  the  house  and  murdered  ^Irs.  Pretlow,  my 
urandniother,  and  liltle  Sarah,  who  was  Iviug  in  bed 
asleep.  Tlie  servant  girl  made  her  escape  and  ran  to  a 
neighbor's  house  and  gave  the  alarm.  Drake  was 
eatight,  indicted,  convicted,  and  hanged.  Robbery  was 
the  motive  for  the  murder. 

Zelinder  .\nn  Pretlow  nuirried  Edward  Everett  Hol- 
land, a  planter,  in  .Naniemond  County,  \'a.,  about  four 
miles  from  Holy  Neck  Chapel.  They  had  several  chil- 
dren, but  only  reared  two  sons,  Charles  E.  and  Edward 
Everett,  Jr.  Charles  E.  married  a  Miss  Sue  Jones,  of 
his  native  county,  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ne-is  in  Sufl'ojk,  Va.,  and  met  with  success,  lie  was 
killed  Se])tembcr  21,  lS!t4.  at  Poykin's,  Va.  He  was 
waiting  for  a  train  and  was  standing  on  the  railroad 
track,  when  an  engine,  shifting  cars,  backed  a  car  on 
him  and  crushed  him.  He  died  just  Ix^forc  reaching 
Suifolk  on  the  ti-ain,  which  was  conveying  him  to  his 
home.  He  left  a  widow  and  several  children,  who  are 
living  at  his  home  in  Suffolk.  He  was  a  devout  member 
of  the  Christian  Church. 

Edward  Everett  lives  in  Suffolk,  Va.  He  is  and  has 
been  for  a  number  of  years  President  of  the  Merchants 
11 


82  The  Winboexe  Family. 

and  Farmers  Hank  of  Xansenioiul,  in  Suffolk.  He  is, 
also,  a  well  equipped  lawyer  in  full  praetice.  He  is 
now  on  Governor  llontagne's  staff  and  ranks  as  Colonel. 
He  married  Miss  Olelia  Lee,  daughter  of  Col.  P.  H.  Lee, 
of  his  coimty,  and  a  distinguished  officer  in  the  Con- 
federate army.  His  wife  died  sc\-eral  years  ago,  leaving 
one  son,  Pretlow,  and  one  daughter,  Bettie.  He  has 
never  re-married.      Fortune  smiles  upon  his  labors. 

Robert  S.  Pretlow  uiarricd  Miss  Isabella  H.  Cook,  of 
Isle  of  Wight  County,  Va.  He  lived  at  his  father's  old 
home  until  about  ISfiO  or  ISlil,  when  he  moved  with  his 
family  to  Dublin,  State  of  imliaua,  where  they  lived  to 
his  death,  February  :il .  1 SS.").  Tliey  had  eight  children, 
James,  Deboraii,  Mary,  Bell,  Jos(^])h,  ('lotilda,  Robert 
E.  and  Elizabeth.  .Tames  returned  to  Virginia  about 
1S90,  married  a  lady  in  Xansemoud  County,  and  several 
years  thereafter  dieil  iu  I'^'aukliu,  \'a.,  where  his  widow 
and  childr(>n  now  reside.  i)ehorali  ne\-er  married,  but 
devoted  luueh  of  licr  life  to  teaeliiug.  The  last  I  heard 
of  her  she,  l»y  a  very  wise  and  judicious  investment  of 
her  money  in  soiue  real  estate,  had  accunuUated  a  con- 
siderable estate  and  was  living  iu  M  iunea])olis,  Minn. 
Roliert  is  a  doctor  in  Indiana,  ('lotilda  is  a  missionai'v 
iu  (lihara.  ("ulia.  Tlie  whole  family  were  sincere  mem- 
bers iif  the  (^luiker  church,  and  all  highly  educated, 
^lost  of  the  children  live  in  Indiana.  JMary  Hare  Pret- 
low married  February  18,  184('>,  James  Massenbnrg,  of 
Southampton  County,  ^'a.,  who  only  lived  six  months 
and  four  days  after  the  marriage.  She  had  one  child 
by  the  marriage,  James  Pretlow  ]\Iassenbnrg,  now  of 
Henderson,    N.    C,    and    who    married    Miss    Carrie 


-I.  I-.  MA->l.M;i  in,. 

HKMiEKSdS,  N.  I  . 

Son  ol'  Mary  H.  I'lelluw    by  her  tirsi  uiairiagc  to 
James  Xlasi^enburc.  of   ^otitlianipton   Couiiiy,  Va. 


Mils.  Makv  Hauk  WixnouNi:.  S3 

Tucker,  of  Frauklintun,  X.  ( '.  .James  ami  Carrie  liavc 
three  eliililren :  Cai'rie,  tlie  wife  of  Mr.  Cliarles  (". 
.Moore,  of  Littlt'toii,  \.  (\;  Martlia  Tiu-ker.  wife  of  J. 
II.  Hridcers,  of  lleiulersoii,  X.  ('..  ami  Win.  Ivlwanl 
Alasseuhiirg-,  of  O.xford.  X.  ('.,  wlio  married  Miss  Aliei^ 
Iliiiiiies,  of  Oxford,  sister  to  ^Mrs.  .\.  .1.  Fi(dd  nf  Ixa 
leio-h.  X.  C. 

James  .Mas.-eiiliiirii,  tlie  liiisliaiid  i>\'  .Marv  iiiiri'  I'l-et- 
li  w,  died  Se]itend)er  .'!,  lS4(i.  au'ed  -J'-i  vears  ami  two 
iiK.utlis.  On  tlie  :5<)tli  day  of  May,  \s:>(),  the  widow, 
.Mary  Mare  ^[a.ssenhiirji-,  ncc  Pretjow,  married  Samuel 
Dardeii  \Viiili<iriie.  nf  lifrtfuril  ('miiity.  X.  ("..  aud  is 
the  mother  of  his  ciiildreii,  wiio.so  names  and  a!:::es  liave 
l)een  jriven.  She  <lied  Aujiiist  l'4,  \'M»K  She  was  edu- 
eated  in  the  schools  of  iier  (dinreh.  She  srradiiated  at 
the  Quaker  Colleii:e  for  yonnu'  ladies  in  Piiiladeljdiia, 
and  while  there  at  school  she  atlentled  religions  services 
at  the  (dd  (Quaker  church,  now  standing  in  that  city 
within  an  enclosure,  so  sacred  to  so  many  familii's  in  our 
lia])i)y  land  of  free<loni.  She  was  a  woman  of  snlilime 
and  gentle  character,  a  devoted  inuther.  a  Christian  w<i- 
man,  and  a  loving  ami  alfectionate  wife,  .softening,  at  all 
times,  the  hard  hlows  of  her  Imshand  in  his  struggles  and 
hattles  of  life.  After  she  married  out  of  the  chnrch  of 
her  parents,  she  joiiie<l  the  i;a]>tisi  church  at  !5nckliorn, 
and  remained  one  of  its  truest  memhers  u\>  tu  her  death. 
Her  sister,  Ann,  after  her  marriage.  joine(l  the  Chris- 
tian chnrch  at  Ilidy  Xeck,  in  Xanseniond  County.  Her 
sister,  Elizabeth  (  P>ettie  as  she  was  called)  and  her 
hrothers.  Robert.  .Tose]ili  and  .Inhn.  remained  memhers 
of    tlie   eliurch    of    tlieir    ancesturs    uj)    ti.    their    death. 


84 


The  Winbokne  Family. 


ilary  and  her  hnsliand,  S.  1).  Wiiilionie,  are  bnried  side 
by  side  on  the  southern  hill  (d'  the  "Cedar  Hill  Farm," 
with  a  marble  ardi  connecting  the  heads  of  the  two 
graves,  on  which  is  the  following  inscription  : 

"They  steered  their  course  to  the  same  quiet  shore. 
Not  parted  long,  and  now  tf)  part  no  more." 

Placed  there  by  their  devoted  ciiildren. 

My  mother  left  a  will,  but  api)ointed  no  executor. 
Samuel,  and  I,  (pialifled  as  ailministrators  cum,  testa- 
iiirufo  anncro.  and  settled  her  estate. 


.Ml>»    MAKV  KLIZ.  \M.\miKM-;. 
Second  daughter  of  S.  li.  and  M.  11.  Wiiiboriie. 
Died  February.  1S73.  aged  Iti  years  and  ti  months. 


Claka  Ann  a.\u  IMauy  Ei,iz.\i;i-.  i  ii  Wi.n  i;iii{M;.      >," 


CLARA  ANN  WINBORNE. 

'I'lie  oldest  (liui^litcr  and  t-liild  of  Samuel  D.  and  ^lary 
II.  \Vinl)orne  died  in  iliirfreeshoro  in  1S(;4  while  at- 
tending school  at  the  C.  B.  F.  Institute,  in  her  ir)th 
vear,  after  a  brief  illness.  She  is  buried  on  the  south- 
ern hill  at  home. 


MARY  ELIZABETH  WINBORNE. 

The  second  dauiihter  anil  third  child  id"  S.  I),  and 
M.  II.  WinlK)rne  died  at  the  C\B.  F.  Institute  in  Mur- 
freeslxiro  in  February,  1S73,  while  there  at  school,  after 
about  three  days  illness.  I  was  then  at  Columbian  Uni- 
versity, Washington,  1).  C,  wlicu  tlie  shocking  and  sad 
news  of  her  deatii  readied  nie.  \Ve  wrote  to  each  other 
every  week,  and  tlial  week  her  letter  clid  not  come.  The 
cause  was  soon  revealed  to  nie  by  letter  from  home  and 
the  visit  to  me  by  Kev.  .Tose])h  F.  Carter,  who  was  here 
when  she  died. 


86  The  Wixbokxe  Family. 


BENJAMIN  BRODIE  WINBORNE. 

'J'ln-  eldest  suii  of  Samuel  J  >.  W'iubonie  was  boru  on 
April  14,  1S54-,  at  the  family  liduiestead,  Cedar  Hill,  in 
Manney's  Neck,  Hertford  Cotmty,  North  Carolina.  At 
the  time  of  his  birth  his  nncle.  Dr.  R.  H.  Wiuborue,  was 
attending  lectures  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  and  at 
the  suggestion  of  the  latter  lie  was  named  Benjamin 
Hrodie,  in  honor  of  a  distinguished  English  Surgeon, 
for  whom  Dr.  Winborne  had  great  admiration.  In 
youth  he  attended  Buekhorn  Academy,  a  flourishing 
classical  school,  of  which  Capt.  J.  H.  Picot,  a  graduate 
of  Columbia  College,  of  New  York,  was  principal.  In 
ISTl  he  entered  Wake  Forest  College,  where  he  re- 
uiaiucd  for  one  year,  and  thereafter  continued  his 
itudies  in  Columbian  l.Tniversity  iu  Washington,  1).  C, 
receiving  from  the  latter  the  degree  of  B.  L.  in  June, 
IS 74.  He  then  studied  for  one  year  in  the  oftice  of 
Judge  W.  N.  II.  Smith  and  Hon.  George  V.  Strong,  of 
Kaleijih,  N.  C.,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in  June, 
1  ST.-),  in  Winton,  N.  C,  having  received  his  license  from 
Ihc  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  the  preceding  February 
and  before  he  had  attained  his  majority.  He  soon  won 
his  way  to  the  front  rank  of  his  profession,  and  for  a 
mimber  of  years  has  been  one  of  the  leading  and  most 
successful  mendK'rs  of  the  bar  in  the  Eastern  part  of 
the  State.  In  1S77  he  was  elected  Solicitor  of  the  Infe- 
rior Court  of  Hertford   County — a  Court  of  limited 


s 


Junuaiy ,  I'Mi. 


-I  AM.I-.V   «  IMliiK.M:, 
Now  111  Iho  ("nlveislty  uf  North  ('luollnu 
In  .hinior  Clas!.. 


U.  B.  \V1M1(i1:NE.  Jr. 

Now  at  William-  iiml  Mary  Collrgf, 

\\'illiam>i>nrg.  \'a. 


Benjamin  Brodie  Wixborne.  87 

tTiiiiiiiiil  jurisdiction — and  served  in  this  capacity  for  a 
ininil)i'r  of  veaiv.  In  isill  this  Court  was  abolished, 
and  a  criminal  Court  of  "eneral  jurisdiction  was  estab- 
lished in  its  stead.  At  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the 
citizens  of  his  countv,  he  accejjted  the  judgeship  of  this 
latter  Court,  and  served  for  a  term  of  six  years,  except 
for  a  short  interval  when  he  resigned  to  serve  in  the 
Legislature  of  1S!I.") — being  re-apiiointed  Judge  after  its 
adjournment  by  Gov.  Carr. 

From  1N78  to  lS!t4  he  served  as  Chairman  of  the 
Democratic  E.vecutive  Committee  of  Hertford  County, 
and  it  was  under  his  management  that  the  ascendancy 
of  the  l{e])ublicau  jiarty  in  tlie  county  was  overcome. 
He  was  one  of  tiie  thirty-lliree  Demoerats  in  the  Stjite, 
elected  to  tiie  House  of  ]ve[)reseutatives  in  the  fall  of 
1S!»4,  and  in  the  Legislature  of  1895  lie  took  an  active 
and  leading  ])arf.  In  IMMJ  he  was  one  of  the  North  Caro- 
lina delegates  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention 
in  Chicago,  lie  was  again  nuule  Chairuuin  of  his  party 
in  ISDO  to  r.M)L',  when  he  resigned.  In  the  fall  of  1004 
he  was  again  elected  a  mendier  of  the  Legislature,  and 
served  in  the  session  of  l!»()."i.  In  this  body  he  was 
Chairman  of  the  Democratic  caucus,  Chainnan  of  the 
Judiciary  Committee,  and  of  otlier  important  commit- 
tees. He  was  the  author  of  much  important  legislation, 
and  took  a  leading  jiart  in  the  debates  of  the  session. 
On  Decendier  28,  1870,  he  married  Miss  Nellie  H. 
Vaughan,  a  daughter  of  Col.  T^riah  Vaughan,  of  Mur- 
freesboro,  N.  C,  and  a  lady  of  exceptional  beauty  and 
rare  loveliness  of  character.  They  were  blessed  with 
the  following  children : 


88  The  Winbokne  Family. 

Triah  Vaii.nliau  Winbomc,  born  May  13,  1884,  who 
(lied  in  infancy  on  Aiigust  5,  1884. 

Stanley  \Vinbt)rne,  born  Aiigust  25,  1886,  and  now  a 
young  man  of  bright  ]n-oniise  and  a  stndent  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Candina.  He  was  named  for  Judge 
vStanlev  Matthews,  whose  intellectual  and  legal  ability 
his  father  greatly  admired. 

Benjamin  Brodie  Winborne,  dr.,  born  Xoveud)er  10, 
1889,  and  now  attending  school  in  Mnrfreesboro,  K.  C. 

]\Iicajah  Winljorne,  born  February  3,  1890,  died 
June  6,  1896.  A  more  comprehensive  sketch  of  the 
sul)ject  hereof  will  be  found  in  the  Biographical  History 
of  Xorth  Carolina,  iiublislied  in  IIH).-). 

R.  W.  W. 


-^^ 


Ml:s.  la.I.A  M.  -WALK  rife  WIMiilKNt. 

-NUKli.l.K.  VA. 


Mrs.  Margaeet  Ella  Savage.  89 


MRS.  MARGARET  ELLA  SAVAGE. 

Tlic  tliinl  (laughter  and  Imirtli  cliild  of  Saimu'l  1). 
and  .Marv  II.  Winbornc,  iiiarricd,  .May  1(J,  issii,  Leroy 
.1.  Savagi',  of  ^iort'olk,  Va.  Ho  wa.s  tlit'ii  a  nieuiber  of 
the  firm  of  Savage,  Son  iS:  ("n.,  who  were  doing  a  hirgc 
and  proiitable  commission  biisines.s.  After  several 
years  tiie  firm  dissolved  and  he  heeame  eonneeted  with 
otiier  tii-ms  in  the  same  line  of  business  uj)  to  his 
deatii,  April  11,  llMil.  .Vf  his  <lealii.  and  for  several 
years  prior  thereto,  he  and  his  family  lived  at  their  home 
on  ("lairborne  Avenue,  in  Norfolk,  Va.  lie  was  the 
son  of  Col.  Alexander  Savage,  a  distingnished  Confed- 
erate soldier,  and  bis  wife,  .Mary  Lee,  of  Xansemond 
County,  Va.  His  widow  and  her  si.\  ehiidreii,  Samuel 
\\'.,  born  .Vpril  2<!.  iss:5 ;  ilary  Lee,  born  .March  14, 
188.5;  Karlie,  born  ilarch  1,  ISST;  Leroy  John,  born 
OclnluT  11,  1S81I;  Sarah  Eliza,  born  Ai)ril  lH,  1S!)2, 
and  Margaret  Ella,  born  SejitemlKT  7.  I'.KMI,  still  live  at 
the  same  jilace,  which  is  ownecl  by  I'^ila. 

My  sister,  Ella,  graduate<l  at  tiie  C.  11.  F.  Institute 
at  Murfreesboro  in  the  class  of  isTU.  She  is  a  most 
refined  and  charming  woman.  She  has  had  a  hard 
struggle  to  get  along  and  su]i])ort  and  educate  her  chil- 
dren. She  is  jihilo.sophical  and  cheerful  under  all  cir- 
cunistances.  She  received  about  $3,000  insurance 
money  from  her  husband's  insurance  for  her  benefit,  and 
13 


90  The  Winbokne  Family. 

about  the  same  amount  from  her  father's  estate,  and 
lier  home  was  given  to  her  by  her  father.  With  this 
help,  and  by  the  best  of  management  she  has  succeeded 
in  getting  along  well,  educated  her  children  as  they 
grew  up,  and  is  a  prince  of  a  little  woman.  She  has 
added  to  her  income  by  taking  a  few  select  boarders. 
She  has  enlarged  her  home  and  now  she  is  comfortably 
fixed.  A  kind  Providence  has  blessed  her,  and  her 
splendid  judgment,  strong  au<l  clear  mind,  and  exalted 
diristian  charactei-  make  her  the  lovely  heroine  of  the 
family.  I  tliink  she  is  more  like,  and  the  best  repre- 
sentative of  the  family,  of  our  father.  May  she  always 
be  happy,  is  the  wish  i)f  the  writer. 


l:.    \\  .    W  iM.wKM..  1.^,^. 

Alloriicy  111  Law. 

Konnokf.  Va. 


KuBEKT    WaHKEX    W'l.MJOKNK.  91 


ROBERT  WARREN  WINBORNE. 

Tilt'  si'iMiul  son  of  Saimu'l  I  >.  \\'iiilniriii-  ami  liis  wife, 
.Mai-v.  I)ol)  (as  I  will  speak  of  liiiii )  lias  always  been 
a  gri'al  favorilc  in  tin-  t'aiuilv.  From  i-arly  life  lie  gavir 
evidenee  that  he  iiosscsscd  a  lirijrht  and  elear  mind,  a 
fondness  for  books,  and  a  disposition  and  tact  for  mak- 
ing fricn<ls.  These  traits  of  eharaeter  and  mind  have 
greatly  develojied  in  his  niatnrer  years.  .Many  of  iiis 
brisiiit  and  elite  savings,  wlien  voiing.  are  remembered 
by  the  writer.  When  a  small  Ihiv  he  was  a  little  slow  in 
learning  to  ride  horseback.  One  day  he  ventured  to  ride 
a  mule  down  the  broad  avenue  in  frmii  of  the  house  at 
home,  and  the  muii'  i-ither  threw  iiiiii  or  lie  fell  off.  It 
hurl  him.  biii  his  e.xperieiice  seemed  to  amuse  hiiii.  ami 
lie  came  to  the  house  lio|ipiiig,  but  laugliing.  ami  an.xious 
to  relate  his  recent  troubles.  lie  told  us  how  the  mule 
drew  his  back  nj)  into  a  knot,  ami  jumped,  as  if  ;ill  his 
legs  Were  intle.xible.and  described  the  ]ieculiar  .sensations 
about  hishead.  lie  thought  his  head  fell  off  from  his  iMidy. 
and  suddenly  his  body  came  to  jiieces,  and  all  his  jiarts 
were  thrown  in  a  pile  on  the  sand.  He  told  it  with  great 
gusto  and  vivacity,  greatly  to  the  amusement  of  his 
father  and  Miss  Jennie  Kiddick,  who  was  visiting  the 
family  at  the  time.  lx>b  was  educated  at  Huckhorn 
.Veademy  and  at  the  University  of  his  State.  He  grad- 
uated with  honors  at  the  University  in  the  class  of  ISSl, 


92  The  Winbokne  Family. 

ivcfixiiiy  tlie  A.  II.  (IciiTL't'.  Kr<iiu  September,  IS^l,  tu 
•laiiiiarv,  1SS2,  lie  and  Locke  Craig,  another  graduate  of 
llie  1 'iii\ersit_v,  laiiglit  seli(i<il  ami  wrvf  tlii'  principals  in 
file  Cliapel  Hill  Academv.  Froni  .lauuary,  1.SS2,  to 
-hine,  1N,'^2,  be  tanght  school  at  Rialto,  Chatham  Conn  -, 
X.  C  He  read  hnv  dnring  the  time  he  was  teaching 
ami  obtained  his  license  to  practice  in  Fehrnary,  ISS."!. 
In  May,  1SS;5,  lie  located  in  IMiirfreesboro,  and  joined 
I  lie  wi'iter  in  the  practice  of  law,  nnder  the  firm  name 
of  Winborne  6l'  IJro.  He  quickly  came  to  the  front  as  a 
sound  lawyer  and  an  attractive  speaker.  We  had  a 
large  practice.  In  the  fall  of  1S85,  in  the  24th  year  of 
his  age,  he  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to  the  Legislature 
of  his  State.  He  was  the  first  Democrat  elected  to  rep- 
resent the  comity  in  the  General  Assembly  since  the  days 
of  reconstruction.  By  his  pleasant  and  courtly  man- 
ners, his  ipiickness  and  readiness  in  debate,  and  his 
ability  as  a  lawyer  aiLil  a  student,  he  made  considerable 
reputation  and  added  largely  to  his  roll  of  friends  in  the 
State.  His  knightly  and  chivalrous  bearing,  and  fond- 
ness for  the  sublime  and  beautiful,  lias  always  made  him 
a  delightful  comjianion.  On  Xovend)er  24,  1SS7,  he 
married  in  Chicago,  111.,  ]\Iiss  Dora  Merrifield,  at  the 
home  of  her  sister.  He  met  Miss  ]\rerrifield  when  she 
was  teaeliing  at  tln^  C.  F>.  F.  Institute  for  yottng  ladies, 
in  Murfreeslioro.  She  was  from  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  and 
the  daughter  of  .Fudge  Thomas  T.  Merrifield  and  wife, 
Katheriue.  of  Valjiaraiso.  Boli  was  attracted  to  her  by 
her  great  beauty  and  remarkable  iutellectmil  attain- 
ments. They  hail  two  children,  Tioger  M.,  born  August 
1,  1889,  and  Robert  AV.,  Jr.,  boi'u  'May  10,  1S92.     They 


KO'.Kl;    M.   W  IMioKNK. 

KiiANtiKi:.    VA. 


K.   W.   W  IMloKNK.  Jk. 


RoBEKT  W'arkkn   W'i.nuur.nk.  93 

iiri^  iKiw  living.  liojiCM",  like  iStaiilcy,  is  not  ;i  t'ainily 
iiaiiic,  hill  a  name  admired  by  his  |)arcnts. 

In  -May,  1S91,  Boli,  with  iiis  family,  muved  from 
M  iirf reeshoro  to  Biiona  Vista,  \'a.,  then  a  most  flonrish- 
in_a:  iK'^^'  town  in  Kockbridjic  Cotinty,  <>n  the  ('.  and  O. 
Railrnad.  In-tween  Lvn('hl)nri;'  and  Lexington,  \'a. 

In  1M)7-N  he  rejiresented  liis  adopted  county  in  the 
Legislature  uf  Virginia,  and  he  was  a  strong  candidate 
iiir  tlie  nomination  as  one  of  the  two  delegates  from  his 
cdinily  to  the  recent  C'onstitntional  Convention  of  Vir- 
ginia, the  contest,  being  Ijetween  him  and  I'X-Cougress- 
nian  St.  George  Tucker,  <>f  Lexington.  Neither  of 
these  rival  candidates  receivi'd  the  nomination,  bnt  a 
"dark  horse"  was  nominated.  lie  was  the  common- 
wealth's attorney,  and  City  Solicitor  for  the  city  of 
Hnena  Vista  from  is'.ni  mitil  OcIoIkt,  IIKH.  wlien  he 
resigned  and  moved  to  Roanoke.  \'a.,  where  he  now  re- 
sides and  is  enjoying  a  lucrative  practice  and  a  happy 
home.  Dora,  his  wife,  died  .laniiary  21,  l!X)(),  and  on 
February  8,  liM)3,  he  married  Rosa  T.  Vatighan,  of 
.Murfreesboro,  the  younger  sister  of  bis  brother.  Beuj. 
H.'s  wife,  a  lady  e(|ually  as  attractive  and  accom])]ishcd 
as  liis  first  wife.  lie  is  a  fortunate  man.  Hob  is  a  line 
lawyer,  a  sober,  ])olished  and  sclndarly  gentleman,  a 
iH'autifid  sjieaker,  an  affectionate  husband  and  father,  a 
true  brother  and  a  devoted  son.  .May  he  and  his  good 
family  live  long.  Rosa,  his  wif(>,  is  a  qneenly  looking 
woman  and  a  noble  woman.  Judge  iferritield,  the 
gi-andfather  of  Roger  and  I\ob(>rt,  was  a  distinguished 
lawyer  and  jurist.  He  was  a  |)rominent  !Mason,  and  in 
)>olitics  a  Democrat.      Tie  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 


94:  The  Wisboene  Family. 

Democratic  Convention  that  nominated  Horatio  S.  Sey- 
mour, of  Kew  York,  for  President  of  the  United  States. 
He  married  Miss  Pauline  Slvinner,  of  STew  Yorli,  Octo- 
ber 9,  1856.  His  parents  were  John  Merriiield  and 
wife,  Katherine,  of  Benton,  Yates  County,  N.  Y.  His 
M'ife's  father  died  when  slie  was  very  young.  Slie  had 
two  brothers,  Samuel  Skinner,  a  wealthy  gentlenum  of 
Valparaiso,  and  William  Skinner,  of  i!^orth  Topeka, 
Kansas. 


^"^ 


ANNIK  M.  lUKHAfiK  ;ief  WINHfUiNK. 
tOMt).  S.   r. 


Mes.  ilARTJiA  Ann  Buubage.  95 


MRS.  MARTHA  ANNIE  BURBAGE. 
.<  ."* 

The  youiigest  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  was  a 
devoted  child  to  her  parents  up  to  their  death  and  admin- 
istered greatly  to  their  eomforl  and  happiness  as  they 
were  closing  the  book  of  life.  In  favor  she  is  more  like 
her  mother  than  any  of  the  children.  She  exhibits,  also, 
much  of  her  mother's  vivacity  and  quickness  of  percep- 
tion, bright  and  cheerful  disposition,  and  her  zeal  and 
earnestness  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  life. 
On  tiie  fith  of  January,  lf^^7,  slie  married  Dr.  Thomas 
1.  Burbage,  a  young  practicing  physician  in  Manney's 
Neck,  and  they  resided  for  about  two  years  with  her 
parents.  They  built  on  a  tract  of  land,  about  a  mile 
north  of  the  old  home,  given  Annie  by  her  father.  They 
now  have  a  beautiful  country  home  and  an  army  of  six 
children  living,  and  one  dead.  The  roll  is:  Landon 
Winborne,  born  l)ecend)er  8,  1887.  Mary  Olivia,  born 
October  28,  18!J0.  Samuel  Thomas,  bom  March  27, 
1893.  Annie  Elizabeth,  born  June  10,  1S9G.  Miriam 
Pretlow,  born  ilay  9,  1901.  Thomas  Irwin,  born  Feb- 
ruary 16,  190.^.  Little  .Mildred  Ella  was  bora  April  5, 
1899,  and  died  June  27,  1900. 

Annie  is  a  Iwautiful  mother,  true  to  her  church  at 
Buckhorn,  of  which  she  is  a  devoted  member,  an  accom- 
plished lady  in  her  family  and  a  great  help  to  her  hus- 
band, who  is  now  a  busy  and  successful  physician. 
Annie  was  educated  at  the  C.  B.  E.  Institute  in  Mur- 
freesboro. 


OG  The  Winboene  Family. 


SAMUEL  PRETLOW  WINBORNE. 

Tlio  youngest  eliiM  of  Samuel  L».  Wiiibume  and  liis 
wife,  ilary  IL,  was  the  companion  of  his  father,  and 
tlie  dntifnl  and  loving  son  <d'  his  mother,  in  their  de- 
clining years,  "lie  was  the  staff  of  their  old  age."  He 
never  completed  his  education.  His  school  days  were 
spent  at  the  old  Buckliorn  Academy,  near  his  home, 
Horner's  Military  School,  at  Oxford,  X.  ('.,  and  one 
year  at  the  University  of  Xorth  Carolina.  He  is  our 
father's  successor,  as  owner  and  occu])ant  of  the  old 
homestead  in  ]\Ianney's  Neck.  On  the  2d  day  of  No- 
ler,  1S!I2,  he  married  the  accomplished,  the  modest 
1  educated  daughter  of  Rev.  Reuhen  Jones,  of 
Ohurcldand,  Va.,  Miss  Jessie  Jones.  They  have  four 
children — all  girls — Mary  Pretlow,  born  August  10, 
1893;  Annie  Sue,  horn  Sc])tcmber  IT,  1895;  Helen, 
horn  June  22,  1897;  Dova,  horn  November  29,  1900. 
Jessie's  mother  was  ]\Iiss  Susan  Perry  Deanes,  who  died 
in  April,  18G2,  leaving  her  husband,  the  Rev.  Reuben 
Jones,  surviving  her.  He  died  in  December,  188.">,  in 
his  77th  year,  while  he  was  pastor  of  the  l>aptist  church 
at  Churchland,  Norfolk  County,  Va.,  and  after  serving 
that  church  as  pastor  for  forty-two  years.  He  was  an 
eloquent  and  good  man.  Sam  and  Jessie  are  staunch 
Baptists  and  consistent  members  of  Rnckhorn  Church. 
He  is  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  a  member  of  the 


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1*.  WINUOKNK.  Esy.. 


Ml;-.  -.  P.  \\  IMiii|;M.. 


SA:\n:Ki.  Prf.ti.ow  Winborxe.  97 

('onnty  Board  of  Education  of  his  county,  and  one  of 
the  deacons  of  his  chiircli. 

Samuel  is  a  successful  fanner,  a  good  citizen,  and 
presides  with  di<;iiity  and  ease  at  the  old  homestead  of 
|{i)li(i-t  Warren  and  liis  father.  Major  Winhcirue.  May 
he  draw  inspiration  from  their  noliie  lives,  and  live  lonj; 
to  enj<iy  his  interestinji;  family. 


13 


98  The  Winborne  Fa^niily. 


URIAH  VAUGHAN. 

Tlie  father  of  ^Xellie,  tlie  wife  of  the  author  of  these 
sketches,  and  Rosa,  the  wife  of  Robert  AV.  Winborne, 
was  a  remarkable  man.  He  was  the  younger  son  of 
John  Vanghan  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Vanghan,  nee  Rog- 
ers, who  lived  on  a  fana  about  three  miles  from  Mur- 
freesboro.  They  were  peojile  in  eomfortable  circum- 
stances and  with  strong  native  intellects.  When  young 
he  was  restless  and  anxious  to  engage  in  the  mercantile 
liusiness.  At  the  early  age  of  !.">  he  left  school  and  his 
home,  and  came  to  Murfreesboro  and  secured  a  posi- 
tion as  clerk  in  one  of  the  leading  stores.  He  soon  de- 
veloped great  talent  and  qualifications  as  a  business  man 
and  nierehaut.  l^)ef(ire  arrix'iug  at  full  age,  he  em- 
barked in  the  mercantile  business,  in  his  town,  as  prin- 
cipal in  his  business.  Success  crowned  his  efforts. 
^^'hen  a  young  nuin  he  married  Miss  Sarah  A.  Jenkins, 
of  Hertford  County,  the  licautiful  and  accomplished 
daughter  of  Henry  HeBerry  Jeiddns  and  his  wife,  Sarah 
Anumda  Jenkins.  They  reared  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren. Xo  hai)]iier  home  could  be  found  anywhei'e  than 
theirs.  He  and  his  wife  were  devout  members  of  the 
^lethodist  church.  He  accumulated  a  large  estate  be- 
fore the  Civil  War,  most  of  which  was  lost  as  a  result 
of  the  war.      Xot  surrendering  to  the  fate  of  the  civil 


I.OI..   IKIAII   VAIGIIAN. 
LATE  or  MlKKItEESBORO,    N.  t  . 

Died  Jnimnry  19.  1»M.  In  lilsTTtli  yeiir. 


L'lUAU  WvuGiiAN.  99 

titritV',  lie  i-L'iiowod  liis  energies,  aud  success  soon  again 
crowned  his  efforts,  lunl  he  died  .lannarv  19,  1890,  one 
of  llie  weallhie-t  men  in  liis  section  of  llie  cnnntry.  His 
wife  snrvived  liini  and  <lied  .lamiarv  ITi,  I'.HI). 

Col.  I'riali  Vangiian  was  a  Christian  genllenian,  witli 
a  wonderful  store  of  wistlnni  and  knowh'<lge,  chivalrous 
in  his  i)earinii  and  in  his  admiration  of  nohle  woman- 

h 1.  a  model  husband,  affectionate  father,  and  a  true 

frienii.  lie  estahlished  the  cotton  commission  house  of 
Vaiighan  \-  Harne-^.  in  ^'orfoli<,  Va.,  after  the  Civil 
War,  and  with  his  eapital,  and  iiy  his  wonderful  km^wl- 
edge  of  men  ami  of  business,  the  ffrni  made  a  large 
amoinit  of  money  and  establishe<l  an  enviable  reputation. 

His  wife's  life  was  one  that  the  best  might  emulate. 
Their  children  living  at  their  death  are  .Mrs.  1).  .V. 
Barnes,  Thomas  .] .  N'aughan,  I'riah  N'aughan,  and  Mrs. 
13.  B.  Winborne,  of  Murfreesbom,  X.  ( '. ;  .Mrs.  K.  H. 
Stancell,  of  Margarettsville,  N.  (". :  .Mrs.  T.  W.  Haw- 
kins, of  Charlotte,  X.  ('..  an<l  .Mrs.  K.  \V.  Winborne,  of 
Koanoke,  Va.  They  lost  three  children,  .luiia,  Benja- 
min and  William  in  childiiood.  Their  oldest  daughter, 
.\niiie.  iiuirried  Geo.  L.  .\v\>>.  of  Norfolk,  \'a.  Shr 
died  in  .June,  1880,  leaving  surviving  her  one  son.  Fred- 
erick Arps.  who  now  resides  in  Xorfolk  with  his  father. 

Col.  Uriah  Vanghan  left  a  will,  ami  his  two  sons, 
Thomas  and  Uriah,  and  B.  B.  Winl>orne,  (pialitied  as 
his  executors  and  settled  his  estate.  The  names  of  the 
Vanghan  daughters  are:  Aiuiie,  Bettie.  .Vlice,  X(dlie, 
Rosa  and  Sarah  A. 

Bettie,  a  lady  of  many  attractions,  married  David  A. 
Barnes,   of  Xortham])ton    County,   who   was   a])pointed 


100  The  Wixbokne  Family. 

-Imliic  of  tlic  Siiprrior  Court  in  the  First  Judicial  Dis- 
Irirf  of  Xortli  Carolina  iu  IstiG  by  the  Provisional  Gov- 
ciiujr  of  tlie  State,  W.  W.  Iloklen,  and  he  held  the  otiice 
i.nril  .\u\}\  1S(>S,  when  the  officers  jjrovided  for  under 
the  Canhy  Constitutiou  of  18GS  took  ciiarge.  Judge 
Ijariies,  a  few  years  after  his  marriage,  moved  to  Mur- 
freesboro  to  live,  where  he  died  June  24,  1892,  leaving 
sur\-i-\'ing  him  his  wife  and  one  son,  David  C.,  and  three 
daughters,  IJessie,  ISarah  and  Annie. 

Alice  married  Dr.  Robert  H.  Stancell.  They  have 
no  children.  Mrs.  Stancell  has  a  strong  and  vigorous 
intellect  and  unusual  liusiuess  qualifications  for  a  wo- 
num. 

Sarah  A.  nuirried  Tiiomas  W.  Hawkins,  of  Warren 
County,  X.  C.  They  moved  to  Charlotte,  JST.  C,  where 
they  now  live.  Mr.  Hawkins  is  a  lawyer  and  a  success- 
ful business  num.  His  wife  is  a  most  charming  and  in- 
tellectual woman.  They  have  four  children,  two  sons," 
Vauglian  and  Thouuis,  and  two  daughters.  Rose  and 
Sarah. 

We  have  already  stated  the  fate  of  Xellie  and  Rosa. 

Friah's  grandfather.  Yaughan,  was  William  Vaughan, 
of  Hertford  County,  -wdio  was  a  ])ri\'ate  in  the  Con- 
tinental army  of  tlie  War  of  ITTfJ,  so  was  William's 
son,  John,  the  father  of  Uriali.  After  the  Revolution- 
ary War  of  1776,  the  State  of  Nortli  Carolina  granted 
to  William  Vaughan,  the  father  of  John,  a  grant  for 
IS.",  acres  of  laud  iu  Hertford  County,  adjoining  the 
otiier  lands  of  William,  the  land  of  Jonathan  Rogers, 
^^'illialll  Figures,  William  Porter  and  Renj.  Izells.  The 
grant  was  signed  liy  Gov.  Richard  Caswell. 


UlUAII    WvriillAN.  101 

•lolui  X'aiiglian's  sous,  William  ami  I'riali,  were  liis 
executors. 

Iriali's  uiotlier  was  Miss  Sarah  Rogei's,  daughter  of 
Jonatliau  Rogers,  the  frieud  and  neighbor  of  William 
N'augliau,  Sr.  William  Porter,  mentioned  in  said 
grant,  is  an  unele  of  the  late  K])inetus  Porter,  of  Hert- 
ford (jouuty,  who  was  the  son  of  Benj.  Porter. 

John  X.  Vaughan,  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  Charles  T. 
N'aughan,  Murfreesboro,  X.  C,  are  the  sons  of  William 
Vaughan,  Jr.,  the  elder  brother  of  I'riali,  and  who  died 
June  -l-l,  1SS4,  on  his  farm  near  .Murfreesboro. 

.John  X.  N'augliau  married  his  cousin,  .Miss  Annie 
Lawrence,  of  Murfreesboro,  the  aunt  of  my  law  jjartuer, 
Lloyd  J.  Lawrence. 

Charles  T.  Vaughan  married  ^liss  (lertrudc  Ilarrell, 
of  Murfreesboro,  the  accomplished  daughter  of  Col.  Jar- 
rett  X.  Ilarrell,  the  lifelong  friend  of  my  father. 

Tlionias  .1.  \'anghan,  son  of  Triah,  married  Miss 
.Mary  Karlev  iirowni,  of  IJaltiniore,  Md.,  OctoK-r  i'l, 
INS."),  the  grancklaughter  of  Bisiioji  John  Earley,  of  the 
iMethodist  Episeoi)al  Church,  South.  Tiicy  live  in  Mur- 
freesboro. Thomas  has  nnieh  id'  the  business  sagacity 
of  his  father,  and  in  favor  resembles  him  more  than  any 
of  his  children.  He  was  a  great  favorite  with  his  father, 
and  is  with  the  whole  family,  lie  is  economical  an<l 
saving. 

I'riali  Vaughan,  son  of  I'riidi,  Sr.,  married  Janmirv 
20,  ISSl,  ^liss  Fannie  Earley  Prown,  of  Lynchburg. 
\\\.y  another  granddaughter  of  Pisho])  Earley,  and  sister 
to  Thomas'  wife,  ^farv.  They  also  ri'side  in  ^lurfrees- 
boro.     Both  of  the  sons  are  merchants  and  are  doing  a 


102 


The  Winbokne  Family. 


large  and  protital)le  business.  Uriah  is  one  of  the  most 
pojMilar,  as  well  as  a  snecessfnl  business  man,  in  his 
town.  He  has  two  very  attractive  daughters,  !Marv  and 
Sarah,  and  wlio  are  great  favorites  in  the  family. 
Thomas  has  no  children. 


Mi;.-.  M.l.I.ll.   \.   Ul.MiuU.NK. 
Wife  of  li.  li.  Winl><)rne.  Sr. 


Sai;aii   a.   Vaicjuan,  \ef,  Texkixs.  103 


SARAH  A.  VAUGHAN,  NEE  JENKINS. 

Tlie  wife  of  L'riali  \'aiii>liau  was  beautiful  in  man- 
ners, retiring  in  nature,  and  a  tine  tvpe  of  the  old  South- 
<iii  lady.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Ilenrv  DeBerry 
•lenkins  and  wife,  Sarah  A.  Jenkins,  of  Hertford 
County.  Henry  was  the  son  of  Winhorne  Jenkins,  Jr., 
and  his  wife,  Susanna  DeBerry,  daughter  of  Peter 
DeBerry,  of  Xortliainpton  Coiinty,  X.  V.  Winhorne 
Jenkins,  Jr.,  was  the  son  of  Winhorne  Jenkins,  Sr.,  and 
Ids  wife,  Ennna,  of  Northampton.  Charles  Jenkins 
and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of  Winhorne  Jenkins,  Sr. 
Tiie  former  died  in  fall  of  1772,  leaving  a  will,  in  whieli 
he  devised  his  jiroperty  to  his  daughter,  Elizalxjth,  and 
his  sous,  William,  Henry,  Charles  and  Winlwrne.  His 
four  sons  and  William  Murfree  were  his  executors. 

Winhorne  Jenkins,  Sr.,  died  in  the  fall  of  1793.  He 
seemed  to  have  been  a  man  of  large  business  interest, 
and  a  large  landowner  in  his  ( Xorthampton)  Cotmty. 
I  find  among  his  ]iapers  important  business  documents 
at  late  as  October  15,  17.il.  He  appointed  his  sons, 
Winhorne  and  Benjamin,  his  executors.  His  will  is 
'dated  July  20.  1790,  and  the  executors'  sale  was  Jan- 
uary 23,  1797.  Tn  a  deed  to  him,  October  15,  1757, 
from  Moab  Williams,  he  is  spoken  of  as  being  in  Bertie 
Coimty,  N.  C.  The  lands  of  the  Jenkinses,  like  those 
of  the  Northampton  Winbornes,  were  situated  princi- 


104  The  Winborne  Family. 

pallv  on  Quarter  and  L'raliaw  Swamps  and  Potecasi 
Creek. 

Winborne  Jenkins,  Sr.,  had  grandsons  by  the  name 
of  Winborne  Odoni  and  Winborne  Parker.  Old  man 
Cliarles  Jenkins  evidently  married  a  Winborne.  Very 
probably  one  of  William  Winborne's  daiighters,  who 
lived  in  the  same  neighborhood  and  died  in  the  sunmier 
of  1748. 

Winborne  Jenkins,  Jr.,  died  in  the  first  part  of  the 
year  1814.  The  sale  of  his  property  was  had  by  his  son 
and  executor,  Henry  DeBerry  Jenkins,  April  2,  1814. 
His  brother,  Benjamin,  also  left  a  son  by  the  name  of 
Winborne  Jenkins,  who  lived  and  died  on  his  farm, 
about  four  miles  southeast  of  Murfreesboro.  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Tom  Parker  now  owns  the  farm,  or  a  part  of  it. 

Henry  DeBerry  Jenkins  died  at  his  home  in  Hertford 
County  at  the  small  town  of  ilapleton,  four  miles  east 
of  ]\Iurfrecsboro,  in  the  year  185(5.  He  was  a  nmn  of 
considerable  estate.  His  wife  siirvived  him  several 
years. 

All  tlic  Jenkinses  were  peo])le  of  much  wealth  and  re- 
finement. 


-Ml:^.  l;i  >.-A    1.  \w.\uoi;.\K. 
Wife  of  K.  \V.  Winborne,  >-t. 


Bryan  Hake.  105 


BRYAN  HARE. 

In  the  early  part  of  iMli  eeutiiry  tliis  man  lived  in 
Xanseniond  Comity,  \'a.  lie  was  a  (Quaker,  and  a  man 
of  .some  wealth  and  prominence  in  hi.s  county  and  sec- 
tion, lie  was  a  good  man  and  all  of  his  kin  were  proud 
l(j  acknowledge  their  kinship.  lie  married  Miss  Saraii 
Shepherd,  sister  to  Solomon  Shepherd,  of  Xansemond 
County,  \'a.  lie  had  three  brothers,  John,  Elijah  and 
Harrison,  and  one  sister,  Sarah.  The  latter  married 
about  1750  my  old  ancestor,  Henry  Wiidjornc,  so  it  ap- 
])ears.  Bryan  Hare  and  his  wife  had  one  son,  Jesse, 
and  three  daughters,  Mary,  who  married  my  mother's 
father,  Joseph  Pretlow ;  Ruth,  who  married  James 
C^opeland,  of  Xanseniond  County.  Va.  They  left  sev- 
eral children ;  and  Elizabeth,  who  married  Samuel 
Copelaud,  of  said  county,  and  they  left  children. 

1  liav(i  an  old  deed  in  my  possession  dated  October  15, 
1751,  wliereiu  .Moab  Williams  conveyed  to  Wiuborne 
Jenkins  a  tract  of  land  on  Potecasi  Creek,  and  the  deed 
is  witnessed  by  Bryan  Hare,  Jr.,  Charles  Jenkins,  and 
William  Jenkins. 

I  can  get  no  trace  of  Bryan  Hare  after  175S.  It 
seems  that  my  father's  and  my  mother's  families  run 
back  to  this  Hare  family. 

1  made  inquiry  if  the  late  Jackson  15.  Hare,  of  Hert- 
ford County,  descended  from  this  same  Hare  family, 
but  I  found  that  be  did  not.  His  father  was  named 
U 


10(1  TiiE  WiNBOENE  Family. 

J\ioses  Hare  aud  was  an  Irisliman,  wlio  came  directly  to 
tliis  coimtry  from  Ireland  during  the  latter  part  of  the 
LSth  century,  and  married  several  years  thereafter  a 
xMiss  Constant,  of  Gates  County.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren, Jackson  B.  Hare  and  John.  John  went  to  Texas 
and  married  in  that  State,  lie  died  in  his  adopted 
State,  leaving  a  family  of  suns  and  daughters. 

Tliere  was  a  Thomas  Hare  living  in  i\Iauuey's  Neck 
about  ninety  years  ago.  I  find  his  name  as  a  witness  to 
old  deeds  for  land  in  the  Buckhorn  section. 

Sir  John  Hare,  of  England,  was  a  man  of  great  promi- 
nence. 

Edward  Hare  represented  Hertford  County  with 
Peter  Wynn  in  I  he  Colonial  House  of  Assembly  of 
North  Carolina  in  17(JS),  and  at  the  session  of  1771  he 
and  Benj.  Wynn  represented  the  county.  (Vol.  8  Col. 
Rec,  pages  US,  l-tti  and  303). 

Tiios.  E.  Hare  married  Henry  AVinborne's  grand- 
(hnighter,  Sallie  Sharpe. 

Have  not  bt-cu  able  to  trace  lii'vau  Hare's  brothers, 
•  Idhu,  Elijah  and  Harrison. 

.Moses  Hare  represented  Carteret  County,  North 
Carolina,  in  the  Assemblies  during  the  same  time  Ed- 
ward Hare  represented  Hertford.  What  kin  were  they 
to  Bryan  Hare  I  have  been  unable  to  ascertain.  Some 
one  later  may  succeed  in  comjileting  these  investigations. 

What  relation  were  they  to  Sir  .lohu  Hare,  of  Eng- 
land, who  was  so  prominent  in  his  country  in  tlie  I7th 
century  ? 

This  question  T  leave  unanswered.  T  think,  however, 
with  tlie  aid  of  tlie  National  Library  at  Washington, 
1).  C.,  it  can  be  correctly  answered. 


Miss  Axx  Scott. 


107 


MISS  ANN  SCOTT 

Was  the  wife  of  Josepli  Pretlow,  and  tliev  were  my 
luotlier's  i>Taii<l]ian'iits.  Slie  was  tlie  ilaiijiliter  of  Wii- 
liaiii  Scoir  and  his  wife.  She  liad  one  lirotlier,  James, 
1)111  no  sister.  William  Scott  was  a  man  (d' i;reat  wealth, 
so  was  iiis  son,  .lames.  He  was  a  direet  descendant  of 
Sir  Peter  Scott,  (d'  Knjiland,  wlio  was  one  of  the  ciiarter 
memhers  of  Viriiinia  in  the  ehartor  of  KJO'.t,  yranted  In- 
Kiiiii  .Tames.  .Tames  Scott,  his  sister.  .Vnn  Scott  Pret- 
low. and  h(>r  uranddaiiiiliter,  Sarah  ('.  Pretlow,  were 
mnrdered  liy  .Matthew  Drake,  as  before  rehited. 


108  The  Winboene  Family. 


THE  SHEPHERDS. 

My  gTandiuotlier,  ou  my  inuther's  .side,  was  Miss 
^lary  Hare,  of  Nansemond  County,  Va.  She  married 
my  grandfather,  Joseph  Pretlow,  January  S,  ISIS.  Her 
mother  was  Miss  Sarah  Shepherd,  sister  of  Solomon 
Shepherd,  of  Nansemond  County,  Va.  Putting  my 
grandmother's  age  at  23  when  she  was  married,  that 
woTild  make  lier  birth  about  17,7.">.  So  her  brother,  Solo- 
mon Shepherd  li^•ed  in  the  last  half  of  the  18th  century. 
This  could  not  have  been  the  original  Solomon  Shep- 
herd, of  Xansemond.  We  find  the  name  of  the  oldest 
Solomon  Shc])berd,  of  Nansemond,  mentioned  in 
Ijisliop  Jleade's  "Old  (Jhnrches  and  Families  of  Vir- 
ginia," as  licing  a  lay  delegate  to  an  Episcopal  Conven-' 
tion  of  1735,  witli  Rev.  Artliur  Emmerson,  Willis  Eid- 
dick  and  Eichard  Baker.  Solomon  Sheplierd  and  Wil- 
lis Riddick,  of  Xansemond,  AVere  members  of  the  Con- 
vention of  Virginia  in  1788,  to  ratify  the  United  States 
C\>nstitution.  Was  he  the  same  Solomon  Shepherd  who 
was  a  lay  delegate  to  the  Con\'ention  of  173.5  ?  Putting 
his  age  in  1735  at  25  years,  tJion  in  17Ss  be  was  SS  years 
old.  Solomon  Sliepberd,  my  mother's  grandfather,  was, 
in  1788,  about  25  or  30  years  of  age.  My  mother's  old 
ancestor,  Bryan  Hare,  who  married  Sarah  Shepherd,  the 
sister  of   Solomon   Shepherd,   of  Xansemond,   came  to 


The  Suepuekds.  lOli 

-North  Caroliua  in  1742,  autl,  so  far  as  1  can  learn,  he 
ami  liis  wife,  Saruli,  left  the  Slate  iu  1758.  They  prob- 
ably returned  to  Xauseniond  and,  some  years  thereafter, 
I  am  Injd  his  family  moved  t(j  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Thei-e  was  a  John  yhei)herd,  whom  I  am  told  by  the 
old  members  of  the  T.  1).  \'ann  family  in  ilanney's 
Neck,  who  came  from  England  in  the  ISth  century  and 
settled  near  Ilicksford,  N'irginia,  and  that  he  had  a 
brother,  Solomon  Shejiherd,  who  settled  in  Nansemond 
County,  \'a.  That  John  ha<l  a  son,  Solomon,  who  came 
to  North  Carolina  aud  setlled  in  ^Manney's  Neck,  Hert- 
ford County,  at  the  j)Iace  later  known  as  the  John  Wad- 
dill  place  (and  by  the  way,  one  of  the  i)rettiest  country 
homes  in  tlie  State),  now  owaied  l)y  J.  G.  ^Majette,  the 
Chairman  of  our  Board  of  County  (^onnnissioners.  This 
Solomon  married  a  iliss  Carr,  of  that  iieighlHirhood,  and 
they  were  the  ])arents  of  Sallie,  the  wife  of  Tilghmau  D. 
\  ami,  of  jramiey's  Xeck,  who  was  born  September  24, 
1.S12,  and  died  l)ccemlx>r  21,  1875.  Iler  father,  Solo- 
mon Shepherd,  died  ilay  5,  182!).  aged  45  years  and 
buried  at  the  old  Waddill  ])lace.  Thus  it  a])i)ears  that 
he  married  young.  My  niothei-  and  .Mrs.  Sallie  N'ann 
claimed  to  be  kin. 

Kx-Chief  Justice  James  E.  Shepherd.  Raleigh,  X.  C, 
is  a  direct  descendant  of  the  original  Solomon  She]ihcrd, 
(if  Xansemoiid  Cdunty,  Va.  lie  has  an  uncle,  Soloniim 
Shepherd,  now  living  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.  There  was, 
also,  a  Solomon  Sheppard  from  Carteret  County,  X.  C. 
who  was  a  very  prominent  man  before,  during  and  after 
the  Reviilutiouarv  War  of  177*^. 


110 


Thk  Winbukne  Family. 


Itieluird  Slii-pln'iMl, 
iiro  iiicnti<iiii'(l  aiiKHiii,-  I 
of  Virginia  by  King  . 
and  tiiey  lauded  in  the 
in  tlie  17th  centnry. 
family  for  ])rodnc,ing 
were  a  people  of  lofty 
and  they  were  so  rega 
late  Chief  Justice^  of 
Solomon  Shepherd,  of 
of  the  old  type. 


]ireac-lier,  and  Matthew  Shepherd 
t  he  grantees  iu  tlie  Second  Charter 
lames,  of  England,  etc.,  in  1609, 

Norfolk  section  of  Virginia  early 
The  Shepherd  family  was  a  great 
preacliers  in  former  days.  They 
■  ideas  of  the  jirinciples  of  honor, 
rded.  lion.  James  E.  Shepherd, 
Xortli   Carolina,   and  his  uncle, 

Philailelphia,  are  living  examples 


Ma.  .1.  W.   IKKKV. 

NOKFIII.K.  V.l. 


J.  W.  Perry.  Ill 


J.  W.  PERRY. 

This  man  is  and  has  been  m}'  friend  from  my  early 
nianliood.  Sliortly  before  I  located  in  Winton,  X.  C, 
in  the  summer  of  1875,  he  resigned  the  clerkship  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  Hertford  County,  and  my  old  friend, 
\V.  J.  Gatlini;-,  succeeded  him  in  office.  Perry,  after 
resigning  as  Clerk  of  the  Court,  remained  in  Winton 
and  was  engaged  in  several  business  enterprises.  Ue 
was  young,  active  and  successful.  He  soon  became  my 
friend  and  gave  mi'  much  encouragement  in  those  strug- 
gling days  of  every  young  lawyer's  life.  He  was  my 
first  client  and  paid  me  my  first  fee.  His  friendship 
was  a  fountain  of  hope.  T  can  never  pay  the  debt  of 
gratitude.  He  has  ever  since  been  my  closest  friend, 
and  the  friend  of  all  my  family.  He  scorns  meanness. 
He  admires  honorable  conduct.  He  is  a  friend  to  any 
honorable  man.  He  is  a  big-hearted  man,  pliilantliroi)ic 
in  feeling,  frank  and  jiositive  in  his  dealings  with  his 
fellowman.  Devoted  to  his  native  State,  and  loyal  to 
his  adopted  State.  He  moved  to  Xorfolk  about  1879 
and  engaged  in  the  cotton  commission  business  and  met 
with  much  success.  He  is  President  of  the  large  com- 
mission house  in  Xorfolk,  of  the  J.  W.  Perry  Co.  He 
is  also  Vice-President  of  the  Citizens  Pank  of  that  city, 
and  is  to-day  one  of  the  leading,  wealthiest  and  most  en- 


112  The  \Yixboene  Family. 

terprisiiig-  citizens  of  Xorfolk.  Xo  truer,  nobler, sincerer 
man  ever  lived.  His  wife's  mother  was  the  great  grand- 
daughter of  Starkey  Sharpe  and  wife,  Sarah  Sharpe, 
iii'i'  Winborne,  and  his  uncle  married  my  wife's  aunt. 
Hut  these  marriage  relations  had  nothing  to  dn  with  the 
formation  of  the  strong  ties  of  friendship  that  have 
existed  so  long  between  us,  as  neither  of  us  knew  of  it 
until  recent  years.  It  would  be  a  blessing  if  such  men 
couhl  live  always  as  examples  of  noble  manhood,  and 
true  citizenship. 


BucKnoRX  Academy.  113 


BUCKHORN  ACADEMY. 

Tlie  acadcuiy  of  Buckhoru  is  located  in  ilannoy's 
-Xcc'k  Township,  Hertford  County,  X.  C,  on  a  lot  ad- 
joining the  lot  of  tlie  old  Colonial  Episcopal  Chapel,  St. 
I>nkc,  wliicli  was  sitiiate<l  lietween  tlic  |)ublic  road  and 
I  lie  present   liiiekliorn  iJajitist  cliiirch. 

Tliere  Iiad  Ix-en  an  establislied  school  at  Hnckh(n'n  for 
a  nmrilicr  of  years  before  it  was  iiicoi'):)orated.  The 
first  charter  granted  the  school  was  by  an  act  of  the 
Ixigislature  of  Xortli  Carolina,  ratified  January  !J,  1847. 
Tlie  trustees  mentioned  in  this  charter  were  John  Wad- 
dill.  Braekney  T.  Spiers,  Abrain  Riddick,  Samuel 
.Mo(.re,  Walter  ilyrick,  Elisha  1).  IJritt  and  Tilnian  D. 
\'ann.  They  were  incorporated  under  the  name  of 
"Trustees  of  Buck  Horn  Academy."  (See  Laws  of  N. 
CI,  lS4(5-7,  ch.  120).  The  name  is  now  written  "Buck- 
horn."  The  school  at  this  old  classic  and  historical  spot 
has  been  ]n-eside(l  over  by  some  of  North  C^U'olina's 
finest  and  best  teachers.  Prof.  Kim!)erly  i)resided  for  a 
nniuber  of  years  prior  to  his  lieconiing  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  State  University  at  Chai)el  Hill.  Then 
Geo.  W.  Neal,  father  of  Judge  Walter  Xeal.  George 
A.  V>v\U,  a  graduate  of  the  University  in  the  class  of 
1852,  also  presided  for  several  years.  Prof.  Julian 
Henri  Picot  took  charge  a  few  years  ])rior  to  the  Civil 

AVar.      lie  formed  a  company  of  soldiers,  mostly  from 

15 


114  The  Winboene  Family. 

Huc'kliorn  boys  and  led  them,  as  captain,  in  the  war.  In 
ISOT  he  re-opened  the  Academy,  and  still  presides  over 
it,  teaching  the  "young  idea  how  to  shoot."  It  was 
under  the  tutorship  of  this  gifted,  scholarly,  and 
knightly  gentleman  that  1  began  to  clind)  the  ladder  of 
knowledge.  I'lie  days  when  the  old  blue-back  speller, 
Smith's  Grammar,  ^litchell's  Geography,  and  Ray's 
Arithmetic  are  fresh  in  my  memory.  Then  followed 
Algebra,  Geometry,  Trigonometry,  the  English  readers, 
Latin  Grammar  and  Header,  (';esar,  Virgil,  Cicero,  Hor- 
ace, the  Greek  Alphabet, Greek  Reader,  Bible,  Homer,  and 
the  like,  with  all  the  air-castles  as  to  the  future,  which 
are  generally  found  in  the  life  of  the  school  boy  who 
knows  but  little,  but  thinks  be  knows  it  all.  When  the 
world  looks  so  small  as  comjiared  to  bis  own  majesty. 
Tbe\-  were  happy  days.  We  loved  to  talk  of  the  majes- 
tic oaks  from  little  acorns  grown,  but  were  never  willing 
to  admit  that  we  were  like  the  oak.  We  were  majestic 
from  the  beginning,  and  no  one  dared  to  dispute  it.  Our 
preceptor  was  never  unkind, never  iui]uitient,  always  for- 
bearing, forgiving,  and  ready  to  assist  us.  He  never 
assmned  the  jiosition  of  a  master,  holding  in  his  hand 
the  iron  rod,  Iml  he  was  a  com])anion,  and  won  the  re- 
spect and  love  of  his  scholars  by  the  promptings  of  a 
nolile  heart  and  a  great  soul.  His  boys  loved  him.  My 
earliest  recollection  of  him  was  in  ISGl,  when  I  would 
go  with  my  lialf-ln'other,  James  P.  Massenburg,  to 
school,  dressed  in  the  uniform  of  a  miniature  soldier. 
A  red  flannel  waist  with  small  brass  buttons  and  red 
stripes  down  the  sides  of  my  knee  pantaloons,  was  my 
nuiiurm.      T  can  never  forget  the  spring  we  were  reading 


BUCKIIORN    At'ADKMY.  llf) 

\  iri;il,  wlicii  tile  iild  ('(iwjKT  ucsin)  wdiiuin'.s  boes  went 
to  war.  Tlicy  Hew  over  tlie  academy  hiiildiiin',  iiiakiug- 
a  soimd  si  iiiptliiui>'  like  tlie  tlmiiders  of  Mt.  Sinai,  aud 
the  old  negro  woman  and  lier  cliildren  were  ninning  aud 
ringing  eow-l)e]ls  and  beating  tin  pans,  trying  to  atop  the 
old  i\ing  Bee  and  to  lead  the  army  baek  home.  liecess 
was  taken  and  ("a](tain  Picot  invited  the  boys  to  watch 
the  bees  and  the  chase,  with  the  belLs  ami  beating  of  tin 
piiiis.  'I'lic  iiiiich  distressed  old  woman  finally  con- 
(piered  the  old  king  with  her  nuisic  and  landed  them 
hack  at  her  hive.  .\a])oleon  never  was  as  proud  of  a 
victory  as  was  the  old  negro  woman.  We  returned  to 
the  school  room  and  the  master  of  the  languages  stood  in 
the  midst  of  the  room  and  read  aloud  the  charming  dis- 
course of  N'irgil  on  the  bees.  He  never  nnide  iiimself 
more  attractive  to  his  "boys"  than  on  that  occasion.  May 
the  hallowed  and  classic  old  ])lace  lx>  forever  presided 
over  by  a  worthy  successor.  It  was  froni  this  old  acad- 
emy that  my  great  uncles,  my  father  and  his  brothers, 
and  his  children  drank  fmm  the  fountain  of  knowledge. 
We  w<M-e  taught  that — 

".\  little  leaiTiing  was  a  dangerous  thing- 
Drink  deep  or  taste  not  of  the  Pierian  spring." 
.\nd  that — 

■'The  proper  study  of  mankind  is  man." 

I  could  tell  of  some  of  the  fishing  and  swinuning 
stories  that  were  so  beautifully  and  imjiressively  related 
to  ns,  under  th(>  shade  of  the  old  spreading  oaks  (not 
beach),  if  I  lived  in  some  disiani  land.  The  old  boys 
will  remendier 


llC)  The  Wixbokne  Family. 


BUCKHORN  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 

Duriinj,'  the  eiirly  I'olonial  days  tliure  was  erected  a 
chm-eli  editiee  ealleil  St.  Luke,  on  the  acre  lot  of  kind, 
just  in  front  of  the  present  Buckhorn  Baptist  Chnrch 
luf,  in  ilamiey's  jS'eck,  Hertford  County.  It  was 
called  St.  LnkeV  Chapel  and  belonged  to  the  Established 
Cluireh  of  England,  where  those  (.)f  that  faith  worshiped 
as  well  as  others.  The  old  bnihling  stood  not  jnst  in 
front  of  the  present  bnilding  and  the  road,  but  it  stood 
in  the  old  oak  grove,  abont  half  way  in  front  of  the  open 
sp;ice,  between  the  present  church  Imilding  and  the  acad- 
emy bnilding.  The  frame  of  the  ohl  church  building 
was  standing  when  I  was  a  very  small  boy.  I  remember 
it  distinctly,  and  recall  the  time  it  fell  and  was  taken 
away.  When  the  American  Colonists  became  restless 
under  English  o])pression,  and  the  spirit  of  the  Regula- 
tors began  to  antagonize  English  institutions,  old  St. 
!,id-:e,  old  St.  John's  Chapel,  ami  other  Colonial 
churches  were  used  by  the  different  religions  denomina- 
tions for  religious  worship.  Prior  to  175S,  Rev.  Mat- 
ihias  Brickie,  a  nai)tist  preacher  in  Hertford  County, 
preached  to  his  followers  in  the  old  St.  Luke  and  St. 
John's  chapels.  Hector  Gurley,  an  Episcopal  preacher, 
lireached  at  same  i)laces  to  those  of  his  faith.  Hector 
:iii<l  his  followers  were  generally  royalists.      About  1758 


Mrs.  JI  I.IA    MOIIKE   I'AKl;  ISIl. 
(OI.r.MBIA.  TLNN, 

(iiilj- living  daughter  of  A.  M. 
(iiirley  and  wife  Sarah  K. 


'  BucKHOES  Baptist  Cihucu. 


Ill 


Rev.  Brickie  died.  He  was  succeedcil  in  his  work  by 
the  Rev.  Win.  Gurley,  of  Hertford  Couuty,  who  con- 
tinued for  ii  number  of  years  to  preacii  to  his  Baptist 
congregations  atBuckliorii  and  otherphices  in  his  county. 
The  present  liuckhorn  cimrcii  was  i)uilt  in  1835,  when 
old  St.  Luke's  Chapel  was  abandoned.  In  1895,  while  I 
was  a  mendier  of  the  General  Assenddy  of  Xorth  Caro- 
lina, 1  ilrcw  a  liili  and  secured  its  enactment,  whicli 
enabled  Buckhoi'n  Baptist  Church  to  enter  and  ac(piire 
title  to  the  church  ground  of  the  old  St.  Luke  Chajiel. 
(See  Pub.  Laws  1895,  ch.  14:5).  I'n.lcr  ibis  law  IJuck- 
horn  Chnrcli  did  enter  the  old  (Vdonial  church  yard  and 
(detain  the  title  thereto.  .May  this  sacred  s]iot  be  always 
watched  over  and  protected  by  a  Great  Silent  Provi- 
dence, and  remain  the  castle  of  tiie  Master  an<l  the 
Falh(>r,  where  sutl'ering  humaidty  may  for  all  time 
drink  at  the  fountain  of  truth  and  of  the  Gospel  of 
Christ. 


118  The  Wixuokne  Family. 


BERTIE  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

Prior  tri  17,")!)  all  of  that  part  of  Hertford  County  ly- 
ing on  the  east  side  of  Poteeasi  Creek  was  a  part  of  Ber- 
tie County,  hence  we  find  tlie  early  records  of  the  Hert- 
ford County  Winbornes  in  Bertie  County.  So  far  as 
the  records  show,  Henry  Winborne,  my  old  ancestor,  was 
the  first  Winborne  to  locate  in  Bertie  County  in  the  ter- 
ritory which  has  been  known  as  Hertford  County  since 
Xovember,  1759.  From  tlio  records  of  Bertie  we  find 
Benjamin  Wiidxirne  and  wife,  Sarah,  of  Bertie  County, 
May  12,  1813,  conveying  a  tract  of  laud  in  that  county 
to  Jacob  Burtonshell.  He  married  ]\[iss  Sarah  Jones, 
daughter  of  William  Jones.  From  the  best  information 
obtainable,  they  were  the  parents  of  Thomas  Winborne, 
who  lived  in  Hertford  County,  for  a  long  while,  with 
W.  T.  Bynmn,  and  died  about  186!)  or  1870.  I  remem- 
ber seeing  him  se\'eral  times  wlien  I  was  a  yoimg  lad 
riding  about  with  ]uy  father.  Old  man  Tommy  Win- 
borne, as  he  was  known  fen-  a  long  wJiile  before  his 
death,  married  a  ]\Iiss  Copeland,  the  daughter  of  Benj. 
Copeland,  who  lived  near  Frazier's  Cross  Roads  in  Hert- 
ford. They  are  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Benj.  Cope- 
land, which  was  ]irobated  in  August,  1839.  Thomas, 
by  his  marriage,  had  three  children,  Mary,  Albei't  D. 
and  A.  J.  Winborne. 


IIAYHEX  J,.  lilRLEY. 
MKKUHAN.  MISS. 

Only  living  son  of  A.  >I.  CurK-y 
and  wife  Sarah  E. 


Bertie  County,  N.  C.  119 

Mary  died  without  marrying.  A.  J.  Wiuborne  mar- 
rit'd  a  Miss  Griftitli,  sister  of  Henry  Griffitli.  She  died 
and  he  married  Miss  Eliza  Wynns,  sister  of  J.  T.  and 
Geo.  W.  Wynns.  Andrew  Jackson  died  in  1857,  leav- 
ing surviving  him  his  widow,  Eliza,  and  one  child, 
Khctta.  .\ibert  D.,  his  lirother,  settled  his  estate.  Albert 
I),  moved  to  Bertitv,  near  where  his  grandfather  lived, 
and  married  Lavinia  ^larsli.  Old  man  Tommy  Win- 
borne  outlived  all  of  his  family,  and  in  his  latter  days 
he  spent  a  lonely  life,  spending  most  of  his  time  with 
his  friends,  \V.  T.  IJyuum  and  James  A.  Worrell,  of 
Hertford  Couutv,  and  was  reeardcd  as  a  man  of  riffid 
honor  and  correctness.  His  grandfather  was  also  named 
liciij.  WiulMirne,  who  on  the  1st  day  of  August,  1762, 
obtained  from  the  State  a  grant  for  26-t  acres  of  land  in 
.Northampton  County,  adjoining  the  lands  of  Thomas 
Ward,  William  Saunders,  James  Ililliard,  Pliiiip  Win- 
borne  and  others.     This  whole  family  lias  died  out. 

T  find  a  deed  from  Josiah  Duggan,  of  Martin  County, 
to  Henry  Winborne  of  that  county,  for  a  tract  of  land  in 
Bertie  County,  dated  August  31,  1S16,  lying  on  Smith- 
wick's  Creek  and  Roanoke  River.  Harry  W.  Stubbs, 
Esq.,  an  attorney-at-law  in  ^fartin  County,  informs  me 
tliat  he  has  searched  and  that  there  are  no  records  of  any 
Winbornes  in  that  county.  There  may  be  some  de- 
scendants in  the  southern  part  of  Bertie  County,  on  the 
Roanoke  River,  of  this  old  family,  but  I  can  not  trace 
them. 

It  again  appears  from  the  records  of  Bertie  County 
that  on  May  8,  1824,  George  Clements  and  wife,  Sarah, 
of  Pitt  Conntv,  conveved  n   tract  of  land  on  Roanoke 


120  The  Winborne  Family. 

Kiver,  in  Bertie  County,  to  Sarah  Winborue,  John  0. 
\\'inli()nie,  Ileury  G.  Winborne,  ^IcGilveray  M.  E. 
Winborne  and  IMonteville  F.  11.  Winborne.  This  fam- 
ily seems  now  to  be  extinct.  This  may  have  been  tlie 
widow  and  children  nf  Henry  Winborne,  of  Martin 
Coimty.  The  deed  speaks  of  the  grantee,  Sarah,  as 
widow,  and  mother  of  the  other  grantees. 

The  name,  Sarali,  was  a  favorite  name  for  the  girls  of 
olden  times.  I  tind  the  major  ])art  of  the  wives  named 
Sarah.  It  is  an  easy  name  to  call.  Besides  it  finds  iu 
oriain  in  the  Bible. 


Miss  HCY  ANN  CIHLKY. 

Uaughter  of  A.  M.  Gurley  and  wife  Samli  E. 

Died  In  1SS2.  aged  17  year.>. 


Hertford  Couxty.  121 


HERTFORD  COUNTY. 

There  were  oilier  Wiubornes  in  this  countv  tlian  niv 
ancestors.  John  Winborne,  of  this  eonntv,  was  in  tlie 
War  of  1770  as  a  Lieutenant  in  ('apt.  Joseph  Walker's 
Coni])any  from  Hertford  County.  (State  Records,  Vol. 
10.  p.  '.144.  Vul.  K!.  p.  1185).  He  died  while  a  Conti- 
nental soldier.  (  \'<il.  H>,  ]>.  llS.")).  If  seems  that  he 
left  no  family. 

Sarah  Winborne,  daughter  i>f  Henry  WinliDnie  and 
his  wife.  Sarah,  married  when  quite  young  Starkey 
Sharp,  of  Hertford  County,  who  was  a  very  wealthy 
and  prominent  citizen  in  the  eastern  end  of  the  county. 
She  died  in  1777,  leaving  surviving  h(>r  her  husband  and 
three  children,  Sarah,  Klizabeth  and  Jacob  Sharp.  Eliz- 
abeth married  Xathaniel  Ilarrell,  and  they  had  several 
children,  Starkey  S.  Harrcll,  Sr.,  who  died  in  1S:30; 
Xancy  Ilarrell,  who  died  in  1S4.">.  Starkey  S.  Ilarrell, 
Sr.,  was  the  father  of  ilarv  Harrell.  the  wife  of  L.  R. 
Jernigan,  and  S.  S.  Ilarrell,  Jr. 

Sarah  Sharp,  nee  W'inborne's  granddaughter,  Nancy 
Harrell,  daughter  of  Xathaniel  Harrell  and  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, married  Wm.  L.  Smith  in  ISlfl,  and  they  had  two 
children,  John  L.  Smith,  born  in  ISH,  and  died  in 
same  year,  and  William  Xathaniel  Harrell  Smith,  born 
1S12  and  died  while  he  was  Chief  Justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  X'.,rth  Carolinn  in  1889.  Wm.  L. 
10 


122  The  Winborne  Family. 

Smith  died  leaviug  his  wife  surviving,  and  she  married 
a  Mr.  Tancey  and  had  one  child,  ^Vntonio,  who  died 
young.  Sarah's  son,  Jacob  Sharp,  married  Miss  Nancy 
Hunter,  of  Gates  County,  in  ITyU.  From  this  mar- 
riage some  very  prominent  men  eminated,  notably.  Col. 
Starkey  Sharp,  Benebury  and  Jacob;  Gen.  Jacob  H. 
Sharp,  of  the  late  Confederate  army;  from  Mississippi. 

Starkey  Sharpe  was  a  descendant  of  William  Sharpe, 
one  of  the  grantees  ,in  the  charter  of  1609  of  Virginia, 
and  was  Sheriff  of  Hertford  in  1TS7.  St.  Eec,  Vol. 
21,  pp.  1061,  1071.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  his 
day  and  time.  Fn.ini  this  marriage,  also,  descended 
Mary  ilarrell,  the  wife  of  Lemuel  R.  Harrell,  of  Hert- 
ford County,  and  the  mother  of  Hon.  T.  R.  Jernigan 
and  .Mrs.  .Mary  J.  Perry,  wife  of  J.  W.  Perry,  Nor- 
folk. Va. 

Sarah's  daughter,  Sarah,  nuirried  Thos.  E.  Hare  and 
died  in  ISK)  without  leaving  children. 

William  Wiulidruc,  son  nf  Henry,  lived  in  Hertford 
County,  and  mi  .lanuary  10,  1780,  conveyed  to  Aaron 
Askew  a  tract  of  land  of  221  acres  on  Spring  Branch, 
in  the  county  of  Bertie,  and  adjoining  the  lands  of  Mary 
Parker  and  William  Byrd.  The  dee<l  is  witnessed  by 
William  Xorthcott  and  Richard  Baker.  He  married  a 
few  years  after  this  a  lady  whose  Christian  name  was 
Judith.  Her  surname  I  have  been  unable  to  learn. 
They  were  tlie  parents  of  John  Winliorne,  late  of  Hert- 
ford Coinity,  who  Avas  born  in  1787. 

John  Winborne,  son  of  William,  married  Nancy 
Siniiius,  and  they  lived  just  on  the  extreme  east  end  of 
Hertford  County,  or  it  may  be,  the  farm  lies  just  over 


Hi:ktf(jkl>  County.  123 

tile  line  ill  Jiertie  C'uuuty.  1  liavc  seen  tlie  farui  ofteu. 
'J'liey  had  two  t-hildren,  William  J.,  boru  iu  IJSIT,  and 
Watson  S.  Winliorne,  born  in  March,  1S2().  John  Win- 
borne  die(l  ill  .lime,  1S47,  leaving  siirviviiig  him  his 
\vid(j\v,  Nancy,  and  two  sons.  Their  daughter  died 
while  wvy  young.  William  .1.  and  Watson  IS.,  his  two 
sons,  (]ualilied  in  the  fall  of  IMT,  in  llertfor<l  County, 
as  administrators  of  their  father.  The  sale  of  his  prop- 
erty was  December  !(!,  Is-IT.  lie  left  an  estate  of 
several  thousand  dollars,  after  jiaying  the  few  debts  he 
owed. 

.Xaucy  Winborne.  widow  of  John  Winborne,  died  in 
iNtif).  Her  will  was  probated  in  Hertford  County  at 
February  Term,  IMiti,  of  the  Court  of  IMeas  and  Quar- 
ter Sessions.  She  devised  her  ]iroperty  to  her  .son,  Wat- 
son Simons  Winborne,  and  the  sons  nf  Win.  J.  Win- 
home,  who  was  then  dead.  William  .1.  Wmborue,  son 
of  .lojiu,  married  Mary  K.  Siumn^  in  1^:!T  i<v  1  >:!s,  and 
they  lia<l  two  sons,  Jose|)h  W.  Winborne,  born  .\|iril  13, 
1S42,  and  John  S.  Winborne,  burn  .luiie  i:i,  ls4s. 

Jose])h  W.  Winborne,  son  of  W.  .1..  married  Miss  Lu- 
cretia  Baker,  daughter  of  (Jeorge  IJaker  and  wife,  of 
Hertford  County,  and  they  hail  two  .sons,  Charles  A., 
who  died  aged  three  years,  and  .lose])h  II.,  born  in  A])ril, 
1S(!4.  He  was  a  gallant  and  bra\'e  soldier  in  the  Coii- 
iVderate  army  and  died  at  Morgantoii,  .\'.  C.,  while  a 
Mildicr  in  necember,  1^(J4. 

Watson  S.  Winborne,  son  of  Joim,  died  in  .lime. 
I !•():;,  at  his  beautiful  home  in  the  east  end  of  the  county, 
leaving  surviving  him  his  wife,  Arabella  Winliorne,  iirr 
]>assiter,  whom  he  married   in   ls4s,  and  she  and  one 


124  Thk  WiiNBoKNE  Family. 

daughter,  Xaucv  I'ai-tlieiii:!,  survive  the  head  of  the 
fauiilv.  S.  M.  Auuuick  (jualitied  November  Hi.  1!)03, 
as  his  aduiinistrafdr. 

John  Simons  Winliorue,  son  nf  Wui.  .1.,  lives  at  the 
east  end  of  Hertford  (bounty,  and  married  in  1S71  iliss 
ilary  E.  Perry.  Tiiey  have  four  sons,  T.  W.,  born  De- 
cember 14,  1873;  C.  W.,  born  in  187(3;  W.  B.,  born  in 
1885  ;  L.  H.,  born  in  188!) ;  and  three  daughters,  ^linnie 
M.,  Lillie  B.,  and  ^Mattie  L.  His  (hiughters  born  in 
1878,  1883  and  1885,  respectively.  He  is  a  worthy  and 
I  rue  man  and  citizen. 

Joseph  II.  Winbonie,  son  of  Joseph,  married  his 
cousin,  ]!^ancy  Parthenia  Winborne,  daughter  of  Wat- 
son S.  They  are  living  now  in  Lawreneeville,  Virginia, 
and  have  several  sons  and  daughters. 

Of  these  Winbornes,  John  S.  and  Joseph  H.  Win- 
boi'ue,  and  their  sons,  are  the  only  survi\'ing  male  mem- 
bers. 


XoRTHAMPToX    CnrXTY.  125 


NORTHAMPTON  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

On  tliL'  4tli  of  ilarch,  174Sj  Jacob  Bass  conveyed  a 
tract  of  laud  iii  Xorthainpton  County,  X.  C,  to  William 
Winbornc,  of  Xanseuiond  County,  Virginia,  and  Win- 
borne  settled  in  the  former  county.  A  few  months 
thereafter  Wiuborne  died,  and  left  a  will,  which  was 
probated  August,  174S.  He  devised  his  property  to  his 
Sons,  William  Winborne,  Dempsey  Wiuborne,  Jesse 
Winborne,  and  his  three  daughters,  Jane,  Esther  and 
Alice.  His  son,  David  Winborne,  is  not  mentioned  in 
his  will.  He  directs  that  his  lands  in  \'irgiuia  shall  be 
sokl  by  his  executors,  and  names  his  wife,  Annie,  and  his 
two  brothers,  John  and  Philip  Wiuborne,  as  his  execu- 
trix and  executors.  William  signed  his  will  ]Viniam 
Winhome. 

Philip  Winborne,  Sr.,  Win.  Wiul)nruc's  brother,  died 
in  the  spring  of  1777,  and  his  will  was  jirobated  August, 
1777. 

He  devised  his  jiroperty  tn  his  wife,  Annie  Wiuborne. 
To  iiis  sou,  Pryan  Winlmrne.  he  devised  his  manor 
plantation.  To  his  son,  James,  and  his  graiulson,  David 
Jonicaiu  (evidently  Jernigan).  (See  record  of  deed 
from  David  Jernigan  to  Bi-yan  Winborne,  in  Book  Xo. 
7-40IS,  dated  July,  1786),  and  his  daughters,  Annie 
and  ^Tary,  and  David  Wiuborne,  son  of  his  brother,  Wil- 
liam Winbiiriie,  he  ileviscd  the  remainder  of  his  estate. 


1-<1  The  AVix borne  Family. 

iris  sons  Bryan  ami  .lames  were  made  his  executors. 
William  Boone,  William  Winliorne  and  John  Barnes 
«'ere  the  witnesses  to  his  will. 

David  Winborne,  sou  of  AVilliani  Wiuborne,  Sr.,  and 
who  is  not  incntioned  in  his  father's  will,  hut  made  a 
beneficiary  in  his  uncle's,  Philiji  Wiuborue's,  will,  died 
in  1779,  and  his  will  was  probated  in  June,  1779,  his 
brother,  William  Winhorno,  dr.,  and  William  Boone  are 
tlie  witnesses.  lie  dc\'ised  his  property  to  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Winbdi'nc,  and  his  son,  James  Winborne,  and 
apjiointed  them  his  executors.  Cicero  Wiuborne  was 
born  shortly  after  the  death  of  his  father.  The  will  re- 
fers to  his  mother'.s  condition. 

Dempsey  AVinbornc,  son  of  William  Winborue,  Sr., 
died  in  the  first  ])art  of  the  year  1816.  His  will  was 
admitted  to  probate  in  .March,  1816.  lie  devised  his 
property  to  his  wife,  Fereby  Winborne,  and  his  sons, 
Lemuel,  Henry  and  William,  and  his  daughter,  Rheua. 
William  Goosley  and  Richard  Whitaker  were  his  execu- 
tors, and  Robert  Slici-od,  William  Webl.)  and  Polly  Bra- 
zill  were  the  witnesses.  His  son,  Gilford  is  uot  men- 
tioned in  his  will. 

Gilford  J.  Winb(U-ue,  sou  of  Dempsey  Winborne,  died 
in  the  fall  of  1827,  unmari'ied.  His  will  was  pro])ated 
December,  1827,  and  he  devised  his  interest  in  his 
father's  estate  to  his  brothers,  Henry  and  William  Wiu- 
borne, and  ap]iointed  his  mother,  Fereliy  Winborne,  his 
executrix.  The  witnesses  to  the  will  are  Joyner  Boone, 
Britton  Barkley  and  Isaac  Hall. 

William  Winborne,  son  of  William  Winborne,  Sr., 
died  in  1807  and  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate  in 


KOETHAMPTON    CoUXTY.  127 

Jmie,  IhUT.  lie  devised  his  property  to  Lis  wife, 
ISarali,  aud  sons,  William,  Deuipsey,  Jesse,  Henry,  and 
Ills  tliree  dangliters,  Ann  Spenee,  July  Lassiter,  and 
Dully  Wehl).  His  son,  William,  and  friend,  Kicbai'd 
Wliitaker,  were  his  executors.  K.  J.  Uailey  and  Isaac 
Griliin  were  the  witnesses  to  the  will.  He  signed  his 
name  sometimes  Winboriij  and  sometimes  Wiriborne. 
lie  must  have  married  ilarietta  Grant.  The  will  of 
\Vm.  (Jrant,  Sr.,  is  dateil  June  1.5,  181.S,  aud  probated 
in  1  )cc(iiil  Hf,  \^:',i),  in  which  he  speaks  of  his  sister,  ila- 
rietta  Wiulinrnc.  and  her  daughter,  Aljsala  William 
Winborne. 

Jesse  Winiiorne,  son  of  William,  Sr.,  moved  to  Madi- 
son C'ouinv,  Kontneky,  and  mi  the  (itii  day  of  October, 
ISOi),  sold  and  conveyed  to  his  brother,  Uem{)sey,  50 
acres  of  land  in  Northampton  County,  X.  C,  on  Urahaw 
Swamp,  lyinii'  on  the  road  to  Murfreesboro,  and  adjoin- 
ing the  lands  of  his  brother,  William,  and  others.  He 
signed  his  name  sometimes  ]yinborn,  and  Winborne. 

And  I  find  the  Xortiiampton  Winborncs  signing  their 
names  at  different  times,  Winborn  and  Winborne. 

William  Winborne,  Benjamin  Winl)i)rno,  John  Win- 
borne and  Philip  Winborne,  of  Xt»rtham])ton  County, 
are  cotemporaries  of  Heni-y  aud  Thomas,  aud  they  may 
have  been  brothers.  I  think  they  spelt  their  names 
Winboi^e. 

John  AVinborne.  above,  lived  in  that  part  of  jSTorth- 
ampton  County  which  was  cut  oft"  into  Hertford  County 
1750.  He  was  Lieutenant  in  the  Continental  aiTny 
in  Capt.  Joseph  Walker's  Comjiany,  Seventh  Regiment 
of  North  Carolina  Troops  from  Hertford  County,  and 


128  The  Winboene  Family. 

was  killed  or  died  in  the  war.      (State  Kec,  Vol.  IG,  p. 

ns5). 

Ill  Company  F,  First  Ivegiiueiit  of  ^'ortli  Carolina 
Troops,  iu  the  late  Civil  War,  fhere  was  a  Winborne  C. 
Davis  from  near  ilargarettsville,  in  Northampton 
County,  X.  C.  Capt.  Thomas  U.  Boone,  Clerk  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  Hertford  County,  ]^.  C,  tells  me 
that  he  knew  Davis  well,  and  ihat  he  was  a  splendid 
looking  man,  and  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier.  He  was 
wounded  in  the  battles  at  Sharpsburg  and  at  Gettys- 
burg, and  died  in  Pennsylvania.  I  notice  that  Martha 
Hancock,  in  her  will  which  was  probated  in  Xorthamp- 
ton  County  in  ISTs,  speaks  of  sister  Sarah  Win- 
borne  and  her  granddaughter,  Mary  Eliza  Davis.  Was 
Winborne  C.  Davis  the  brother  of  Eliza?  I  tried  to 
iiiid  out  something  of  these  people,  but  I  can  find  no 
record  or  any  jierson  who  can  give  me  any  information 
about  them  more  than  I  have  obtained  in  my  research. 
;\rrs.  Hancock's  niece,  Eliza,  lived  in  tlie  Margarettsville 
neighborhood. 

The  ]Srortliam])toii  Wiiibornes  are  extinct. 


t 


Nash  County.  X.  C.  129 


NASH  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

Josiali  Wiuhonic  died  in  ITSKS  aiul  his  will  was  pru- 
bated  in  XovoiiiImt,  17'.'^.  Me  devised  his  pi'operty  to 
\t\fi  widow,  Feiiliv  Wiidmriie,  and  I'uur  suns,  Abraiiani, 
•lolm,  David  and  dosiah.  The  tirst  three  sons  were  the 
execntors  named  in  the  will,  and  Wilson  Taylor,  ilat- 
thew  Johnson,  Willie  Hopkins  and  Priscilla  Johnson 
wore  the  witnesses  to  the  will.  His  will  reads  like  he 
might  liave  been  a  preacher  of  the  Gospel.  Ou  October 
5,  ITi^ii,  tlie  State  granted  him  o4.")  acres  of  laud  in 
Xash  County,  on  tiie  waters  of  Beaver  Uam.  This  land 
he  dis])osfs  of  in  his  will. 

David  Winborne,  sou  of  Josiah,  died  in  1S4S,  and 
his  will  was  probated  in  February,  1848.  lie  devised 
his  property  to  Ids  widow,  Isly  Wiuborue,  and  his  chil- 
dren, .lolin  Q.,  dames,  Josiah,  Ivey  J.,  David,  Melauey, 
who  nuirried  a  Btizzcll,  Xaucy,  who  marriinl  a  Williams, 
.M:iry,  Kliza  ('.,  Martha  A..  John  \'.,  and  Isly  Jane, 
lie  a])pointed  his  son,  Josiah,  his  e.xecutxjr.  The  wit- 
nesses to  his  will  were  William  Ilaro  and  Menton  M. 
Goodwin. 

David  Winborne  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  his 
county  in  1822  anil  1823.  He  resigned  and  the  Lcgis- 
iiitnre  of  that  session  filled  the  vacancy  by  appointment 
by  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly.  He  was  also  a 
ilethodist  preacher. 
17 


130  The  Winboene  Familt. 

David  Winbonie,  .Ir.,  son  of  David,  Sr.,  died  in  1876, 
and  his  will  was  proljated  in  May,  ISTG.  He  never  mar- 
ried, and  he  devised  his  estate  to  his  nephew,  Festus 
Winhorne,  son  of  his  brother,  John  Q.  Winhorne,  de- 
ceased. He  made  A.  F.  Lewis  his  executor.  The  wit- 
nesses to  the  will  were :  B.  D.  Statt  and  D.  M.  Statt. 

Mary  Winhorne,  daughter  of  David,  Sr.,  died  in 
1870,  and  her  will  was  probated  in  Wovember,  1879. 
She  never  inarrie<l.  Her  estate  she  devised  to  her  sis- 
ter, Martha  A.,  wife  of  J.  R.  Brown,  her  sister  Isly 
Jane,  wife  of  J.  A.  Brown,  Lilly  .1.  Winborne,  her 
niece,  and  a  daughter  of  li(>r  iirofhcr,  John  Q.,  and 
John  Festus  AVinbornc,  a  son  of  her  brother,  John  R. 
Winhorne,  deceased.  J.  A.  Brown,  the  hnsband  of  her 
sister,  Isly  Jane,  was  appointed  e.xecutor,  and  D.  M. 
Statt  and  K.  W.  Statt  were  witnesses. 

John  V.  Winborne,  son  of  David,  died  in  1901,  and 
his  will  was  admitted  to  ])robate  August  :i!>,  1901.  He 
devised  his  estate  to  his  wife,  Katie  Winborne.  He  had 
1111  children.  llis  wif(>  was  named  as  executrix  and  W. 
(i.  Kemp  and  J.  .1.  Keui])  were  the  witnesses.  J.  D. 
Winborne,  Seliiia,  .\ .  ('.,  is  the  ]iersonal  repre.sentative 
of  John  V.  Winborn. 

John  Q.  Winborn  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War  be- 
tween the  States.  He  was  Lieutenant  in  Company  D, 
17th  Regiment,  X.  C  Troops,  from  !Mash  County.  He 
served  throughout  the  war,  but  his  wherealiouts  since  the 
war  T  have  been  unable  to  learn. 

Ivey  J.  Winborn  married  and  died  leaving  one  son, 
William  Brock  Winborne. 


Nash  County,  N.  C.  131 

William  Brock  Wiuboriie  married  .March  4,  IMiO, 
widow  Catliariiic  Rt-hecca  \Vats(Hi,  of  Louisljurg',  X.  ("., 
file  anllior  uf  llic  design  of  the  Confederate  Hag,  "The 
Stars  and  Bars,"  and  also  of  the  large  Confederate  Hag. 
lie  dieil  March  12,  lS<s;],  at  Pinet.ops,  X.  ('.,  leaving  his 
widow  and  two  daughters  surviving  him.  One  of  the 
dangiiters  married  \\".  S.  Whittield,  and  llie  otlu'r  mar- 
ried 11.  S.  Wehb,  all  of  l^inetops,  Wilson  County,  X.  C. 
The  widow  i-;  74  yi'aiv  uhl  and  writr-;  an  inli'rrsting 
lellcr. 

1  understand  tliat  only  one  of  the  Na.sh  County  fami- 
lies of  Winhoi'u's  is  now  living,  and  he  is  J.  I).  Win- 
horne,  living  ueai'  Selma,  .X.  C.  1  iiave  written  him 
twice,  iiut  can  not  hear  fmni  him.  .\ly  letters  wei-e  re- 
turne<l. 


'^ 


The  WiNBiiKNE  Family. 


EDGECOMBE  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

The  records  <<{  this  cuuutv  sluiw  tliat  formerly  some 
Winbonies  lived  there.  Josiah  Winboiirn  conveyed 
land  in  the  eonuty  October  1-2,  IT!*").  Joseph  Wiuborn 
a  few  years  later  nnd<es  a  conveyance.  James  Winbnrn 
is  found  there  in  Febrnary,  1817,  and  on  Febriuiry  9, 
1828,  Lydia  Winborne,  of  Xorthampton  Connty,  con- 
veys him  land  in  Edgecombe.  Joseph  I.  Winborn  ap- 
jiears  on  the  records  as  a  vendor  of  land  in  1832  and 
1833. 

In  1899  Henry  Winburne  die<l,  leaving  a  will,  in 
which  be  devises  land  to  his  son,  William  H.  Winliorne. 
Justice  II.  G.  Connor  writes  mo  that  he  knew  of  Abram 
Winborne,  of  Tarboro,  N.  C,  bnt  he  died  several  j'ears 
ago.  The  records  do  not  show  from  what  section  of  the 
country  these  people  came.  Bnt  evidently  they  sprang 
fr.im  the  Xortluimiiton  and  Xash  families.  There  was 
Hlisha  Winborne  in  Halifax  ('(nmty  in  the  early  ]iart  of 
the  19th  century,  bnt  be  went  from  Xorthampton,  and 
returned  after  a  few  years  to  his  native  county.  These 
families  are  now  extinct. 


^^' 


Wake  County.  133 


WAKE  COUNTY. 

.Te.«;it'  Wiiiboruf,  of  Wake,  was  biigk-r  in  Coniijany  1, 
"Wake  luiusiers,"  iu  tlie  late  Civil  War.  lie  married 
but  never  liad  any  cliiblreu.  Since  tlie  war  he  served 
with  ability  as  Cuiinty  Coniini.ssioner  of  that  county  for 
several  terms.  He  is  a  man  of  a  good  estate,  and 
stands  as  an  e.xeniplar  t-itizen.  \Yithin  the  last  year  or 
so,  he  left  Wake  County,  and  is  now  living  at  Elon  Col- 
lege, X.  C.  lie  has  educated  several  jioor  children  who 
did  not  have  tiie  means  to  educate  themselves.  lie  was 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  a  leading  and  model  citizen 
in  his  community.  I  have  been  unable  to  learn  his 
ancestry. 


13-1:  The  ^YII^fBOBNE  Family. 


GUILFORD  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

^Ya]tev  A.  Wiiibdiii-n  tigiircil  prominently  in  business 
and  official  atiairs  in  Guilford  County.  We  lind  him 
party  to  a  law  suit  reported  in  4  D.  &  B.,  l'71,  Ilubhard 
r.  Walter  A.  W'iiiliorne.  He  was  the  victor  in  the  suit. 
We  find  him  again  as  plaintiff  in  the  suit  of  Walter  A. 
Winburn  c.  Gorrcll,  3  Ire.  Eq.,  117.  He  wins  again. 
He  was  SheVitT  of  his  county  from  1847  to  1857,  and 
was  a  large  property  holder  in  and  around  Greensboro. 
]S;o  information  can  l)e  obtained  as  towlierche  came  from, 
or  when  he  became  a  citizen  of  that  coimty.  He  had  a 
brother  by  the  name  of  Cornelius.  ISTeither  married. 
Cornelius  died,  and  Walter  left  Greensboro  about  1860 
or  1861  and  moved  to  Tennessee.  He  was  a  steward 
in  the  Methodist  ehurcli,  and  a  Whig  in  politics. 

One  of  the  old  members  of  the  Greensboro  Bar,  who 
remembers  Winborne  well,  tells  this  incident  about  him : 
A  man  by  the  name  of  Witty  was  taking  a  barrel  of  mo- 
lasses from  a  wagon,  a  lioop  came  off  and  the  contents 
began  to  run  out,  when  Witty  exclaimed  with  much  em- 
phasis. "'The  devil."  Winborne  remarked  to  him,  "Man, 
don't  take  the  name  of  vour  maker  in  vain." 


RA.NDOLrn  County,  N.  C.  135 


RANDOLPH  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

Richard  W.  Winburne  was  a  Lieutenant  in  a  conipauy 
from  tliat  county  in  llie  Civil  \\  ar. 

Calvin  11.  Wellxjrn,  or  Winljiirnc,  was  a  Lieutenant 
in  Company  L  from  Randolph  County,  tlic  "Cwliarrie 
Rifles." 

I  can  not  get  any  information  of  the  ahuve  two  sol- 
dicers  since  the  close  of  the  contlict  uf  armsi     . 


WILSON  COUNTY,  N.  C. 

James  Madison  Winburn,  of  Wilson  ('onnty,  was  a 
gallant  srddier  in  the  late  C^ivil  War.  He  enlisted  Jan- 
uary 2G,  18G2,  as  a  private  in  Com])any  F,  the  Fourth 
Regiment.  We  have  nothing  from  him  since  the  war. 
So  far  as  I  can  learn  the  Winburns  of  tliis  county  have 
become  extinct. 

Xor  is  there  any  trace  of  any  Winbornes  in  Pitt 
County,  so  T  am  informed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Court  of 
that  county,  who  made  a  search  for  me. 


I'PiC,  The  Wixborne  Family. 


VIRGINIA. 

Mv  investigations  have  slinwu  heyonil  iloiiht  that  tlie 
old  Wiiibdi-ues  came  from  Virginia  to  Xortli  Carolina 
(luring  tlie  first  lialf  oi  tlic  IStli  century.  My  old  an- 
cestor, Henry  Winbiirne,  came  from  Nansemond  Connty, 
\'a.,  in  l~-^-2.  William  Winborne,  of  Xortliampton 
County,  N.  C,  came  from  the  same  county,  in  174S, 
and  David,  Philip  and  Thomas  Winborne  came  between 
1742  and  1750.  Hearing  that  there  was  a  family  of 
Wiidwrnes  in  Norfolk,  Va.,  I  wrote  to  Elisha  J.  Win- 
borne, 300  Chestnut  street,  Berkeley,  Va.,  to  learn  some- 
thing of  his  ancestry.  In  his  letter  of  May  25,  1905, 
to  me  he  writes  that  bis  father  was  Henry  A.  Winborne, 
b(irn  .lanuarv  1,  1S0'.>,  and  lived  near  Carrsville,  Va., 
and  that  his  motlier  was  Eliza  A.  Winborne,  nee  Hol- 
land. That  his  mother  died  December  7,  1873,  and 
his  father  died  March  3,  ISSO.  His  grandfather  was 
Elisha  Winborne,  of  Xansemond  County,  Va.  That  his 
father  had  a  brother,  John  Winborne,  Avho  lived  in  the 
same  county. 

Henry  A.  Winborne  left  several  children,  Solomon 
.T.,  Alexander  J.,  A.  X.,  Junius  W.,  Gustavnis,  and  Eli- 
sha J.  Winborne.  Elisha  J.,  in  his  letter  to  me,  writes 
tliat  he  is  66  years  r.ld ;  that  he  served  through  the  late 
Civil  War  under  the  command  of  Gen.  Wm.  Malione, 
and  that  he  and  the  older  members  of  his  family  were 
members  of  the  Christian  Church. 


ViEGINIA.  137 

lie  writes  furtlier,  that  lie  had  heard  his  father  speak 
often  of  lirvan  Hare,  hut  Iw  eoiihl  give  nothing  definite 
ahciit  Hare.  .\re  tliev  kin  i  Here  I  meet  with  another 
Kiiliieon  in  the  destruction  <  f  tlie  records  of  Xansemond 
County,  \'a.  The  Clerk  of  the  (jourt  there  informs  me 
that  the  records  of  that  conutv  only  go  back  to  1866. 
Suffolk,  tiie  county  seat,  was  the  heatl(|nartcrs  for  the 
rnion  soldiers  during  the  late  Civil  War,  and  remained 
uniler  their  control  during  the  military  government  in 
the  Southern  States  that  followed  the  war.  The  South 
can  never  recover  completely  from  the  destruction  of  her 
records  during  the  war.  The  abolition  of  slavery  was  a 
blessing  in  disguise.  With  the  continuation  of  the  insti- 
tution of  shivery,  the  South  could  not  have  retained  its 
intellectuality  and  its  wonderful  civiiizatinn  which  was 
the  glory  and  admiration  of  the  New  World.  The  rec- 
ords of  the  genealogy  of  her  sons  and  daughters  were  the 
evidence  of  her  glory  and  tlie  proud  boast  of  iier  sii]ic- 
riority.  The  genial  rays  of  the  sunny  South,  awakened 
a  feeling  of  patriotism  and  chivalrous  bearing,  upon  the 
altar  of  the  hearts  of  the  jieople,  that  never  permeated 
the  ice-bound  bosom  of  the  X<u'tlierii  clime. 


S^ 


18 


138  The  Winbokne  Family 


THOMAS  WILBORNE. 

This  party  presents  an  inturcstiug  inquiry.  Was  his 
name  originally  A\'inborne  'i  Is  he  the  Thomas  Wil- 
borne  who  figured  so  prominently  as  a  Regulator  in 
Orange  County,  :N.  C,  in  17()8-9  i  Is  he  the  father  of 
Ii(il)ert  Wilborue,  a  member  of  Capt.  James  Vaughan's 
comi)any  nf  ( 'nutini'iital  trodps  from  Xorthampton 
County  { 

In  Deed  Book  '■]  of  Xorthami)tiiu  records  I  find  a  con- 
tract to  convey  land  from  Thomas  Wilborne  of  that 
county  to  Jiilm  Robertson,  of  tlic  county  of  Brunswick, 
in  tiie  Colony  of  Virginia.  In  the  body  of  this  contract 
the  name  is  written  alternately  Wilborne  and  Winborne, 
btit  signed  Thmnas  Wilbiiruc.  This  paper  is  dated  Oc- 
tober 10,  17 Go.  In  the  same  Book  I  lind  a  deed  dated 
October  10,  1703,  indexed  Thomas  Winborne  to  John 
Robertson  for  the  land  mentioned  in  the  above  contract. 
All  through  tliis  deed  the  grantors  are  written  Thomas 
Winborne  and  wife,  ^fargaret.  but  signed  Thomas  Wil- 
borne. 

In  same  Imok  1  find  anuthcr  deed  from  Thomas  Wil- 
borne and  wife,  ilargaret,  dated  November  1,  1763,  to 
Robert  Jones,  an  attorney-at-hn\'  of  that  county,  to  whom 
lie  conveyed  a  part  of  his  lands  in  Occoneechy  J^eck. 
He  was  evidently,  from  these  records,  a  man  of  much 
wealth.      This  deed  is  written  and  signed  Thomas  Wil- 


Thomas  Wilbornk  13'.t 

borne.  1  tiuil  trmii  tlie  records  of  ^^ortllalllI)t<lIl,  utter 
tlie  l\e\olutioii,  Iiohert  Will)orne,  of  tliat  county,  convey- 
hii!;  some  of  the  same  lands  formerly  conveyed  to 
Thomas  Wilhorne.  From  the  list  of  the  Coutiuoutal 
troops  from  >»orth  Carolina  (State  Records,  Vol.  16), 
I  find  Koberl  Wilhorne  a  private  in  Capt.  James 
Vaiiijhan's  ('oiii]iany,  Tlli  Regiment.  Capt.  Vaughan 
was  from  Xortliampton  County.  There  are  a  number 
of  people  by  file  name  of  Weiborn  and  Willburn  in 
North  ('arolina.  Thomas  Wilhorne  left  Xortliampton 
Conntv  about   IT'M. 


140  Tmc  ^YrxBOKNE  Family. 


ENGLAND. 

111  Dorset  C'uiinty  the  luiiucs  of  Winiborne,  Sherborne, 
]\Jilborne,  Cvauboriie,  Winterborne  are  proniineut  and 
leading.  John  (,)uest,  of  Scoteli  parentage,  when  he  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  he  ado]ited  the  name  of  Lord 
Wimbornc.  That  is  some  evidence  that  the  above  Dor- 
.'!et  County  iiaiues,  ending  with  'iinrne'"  are  Scotch 
names.  I  mention  these  facts  thinking  that  some  more 
coinjietent  and  energetic  member  of  the  Winborne  family 
may  in  the  future  trace  the  origin  of  our  name.  I  was 
usniied  by  my  uncle,  R.  II.  Winborne,  for  Sir  Benjamin 
Collius  Brodie,  Bart,,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  phy- 
siologists and  surgeons  in  England  in  the  early  part  of 
the  19th  century.  A  very  full  account  may  be  ftmnd 
'■^'  him  in  the  Encycloptedia  Britarmica. 

My  son,  Stanley,  was  named  for  Justice  Stanley  ]\Iat- 
thews,  of  Ohio,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Court 
nf  the  Ignited  States  from  May  12,  1881,  to  March  22, 
18SD,  the  date  of  his  death. 


CoNCLtrsiON. 


141 


CONCLUSION. 

III  wriiiiii;  tlic  forofioing  skctclie.s  T  did  iiimdi  more 
tliau  I  !~tartfd  out  to  do.  lint  after  bcainniug  the  work 
it  bccaiiic  fa.seinatiiia'.  ft  ci'eated  a  burning  de.sire  to 
look  further,  and  l\ini  nw  ail  the  light  pos.sible.  I  con- 
gratulate myself  bv  indulging  the  hope  that  what  was 
.so  interesting  to  nic  may  contribute  to  the  pleasure  of 
some  one  else.  .\  man  has  but  a  little  soul  who  does  not 
enjciy  living  in  the  past.  The  jiast  contains  the  foun- 
tains of  wisdom,  of  knnwledge,  and  of  inspiration.  It 
is  the  mile-post  for  the  future. 

Tt  wouhl  liave  greatly  pleased  me  to  have  made  my 
sketches  more  extensive  and  taken  in  my  many  friends, 
and  my  county,  but  the  labors  of  life  made  it  beyond  my 
jiower.  I  ask  the  kinil  criticisms  of  my  friends  and  the 
|)eople  of  my  comity,  whom  I  have  served  st)  hing,  and 
whose  interests  are  so  dear  to  me.  Vale,  vale,  et  lonxjum 
rale.  B.  B.  ^YIXB()I{XE. 


FAMILY  RECORD. 


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